Gender, management and leadership in initial teacher education : managing to survive in the education marketplace? / Barbara Thompson

Includes bibliogaphical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index

Dedication ; Introduction and Chapter Outlines; A Notably Under-researched Group; Chapter Outlines; Chapter 1: Setting the€Scene; Chapter 2: Women, Management and€Leadership; Chapter 3: Women, Educational Management and€Leadership; Chapter 4: The€Particular Story of€the€Management of€Teacher Education; Chapter 5: Neoliberalism, New Managerialism, Policies and€Practices; Chapter 6: Researching Women Managers and€Leaders; Chapter 7: Women, Returning to€Manage Initial Teacher Education; Chapter 8: Extraordinary Women, Senior Women Managers and€Leaders. Chapter 4: The Particular Story of the Management of Teacher EducationThe Changing Face of€Gendered Leadership; Moving into the€Academy: The€Devil's Bargain; Women: The€Marginalised Teacher Educators?; Women Teacher Educators: Professionally Neutral, Maintaining the€Status Quo?; Managing Teacher Education: A€High-Status Job or Simply Doing Women's Work?; Going Back to€School; References; Chapter 5: Neoliberalism, New Managerialism, Policies and Practices; Neoliberalism; New Managerialism: Origins, Discourses and€Cultural Change. Chapter 9: Managing to€Survive in€Risky Times?Chapter 10: Looking to€the€Future: the€Struggle for€Teacher Education; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Setting the Scene; The Educational Context; The Personal Context; The Field; Teacher Trainers: Marginal in€the€Literature; References; Chapter 2: Women: Management and Leadership; Theories About Management and€Leadership; Trait Theories; Behavioural Studies; Power and€Influence Theories; Cultural and€Symbolic Theories; Cognitive Perspectives on€Leadership; Contingency Theories. Persisting Inequalities Between Male and€Female Managers in€SchoolsA Suitable Candidate for€Promotion? The Persistence of€Unfriendly Myths About Women; Promotion & Taking a€Different Path?; The Promotion Process; Informal Promotion Procedures: Role Models, Mentors and€Networking; Formal Promotion Procedures: The€Interview; A Changing Management Ethos: The€Effect of€Educational Reform on€Gendered Promotion Prospects; Contingency and€Context, Choice or Constraint: Choosing Not to€Go€for€Promotion; Women: Managing and€Leading in€the€Academy; References. Visionary Leadership and€Strategic Management?Distributed and€Transformational Leadership; Women in€Organisations: Surviving in€a€ Male World?; Glass Ceilings, Perspex Ceilings, Glass Walls and€Firewalls; The Double Standard: Marriage, Career and€Family; 'Unfriendly' Myths Surrounding Women Managers; Problems with€Essentialising Male and€Female 'Ways of€Managing'; References; Chapter 3: Women: Educational Management and Leadership; Women Who Manage Schools; Women's Under-representation in€the€Management of€Schools: Some Explanations from€History.

This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face. Teacher education is at the forefront of education reforms and yet little is known about the professional lives of those who work within it. Whereas many women are moving into positions of authority in teacher training, some existing women managers are being marginalized within new internally differentiated layers of managerial structures. Yet other female managers, mainly new appointees, seem to endorse the discourses associated with new managerialist practices. Simultaneously some women who manage in teacher training are engaged in a struggle for survival individually and professionally. In the main, men seem to be missing from authority positions and will conclude that, in the current climate, the management of teacher training is 'no job for a man'.