Reconsidering Feminist Research In Educational Leadership (suny Series In Women In Education)

RECONSIDERING FEMINIST RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 1. Introduction: Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational Leadership by Linda Skrla and Michelle D. Young......Page 12 Part I: Troubling Feminist Research Methods in Educational Leadership......Page 18 2. Laying the Groundwork for a Reconception of the Superintendency from Feminist Postmodern Perspectives by Margaret Grogan......Page 20 3. Considering (Irreconcilable?) Contradictions in Cross-Group Feminist Research by Michelle D. Young......Page 46 4. The Linguistic Production of Genderlessness in the Superintendency by Jennifer Scott......Page 92 5. Mourning Silence: Women Superintendents (and a Researcher) Rethink Speaking Up and Speaking Out by Linda Skrla......Page 114 Part II: Reconsidering Feminist Epistemologies in Educational Leadership......Page 140 6. The Substance of Things Hoped for, the Evidence of Things Not Seen: Examining an Endarkened Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research and Leadership by Cynthia B. Dillard......Page 142 7. Chicana Feminism and Educational Leadership by Sylvia Méndez-Morse......Page 172 8. A Loving Epistemology: What I Hold Critical in My Life, Faith, and Profession by Julie C. Laible......Page 190 9. Life Lessons and a Loving Epistemology: A Response to Julie Laible’s Loving Epistemology by Colleen A. Capper......Page 204 10. Research on Women and Administration: A Response to Julie Laible’s Loving Epistemology by Michelle D. Young and Linda Skrla......Page 212 11. The Emperor and Research on Women in School Leadership: A Response to Julie Laible’s Loving Epistemology by Catherine Marshall......Page 222 Part III: Reconceptualizing Applications of Feminist Research in Educational Leadership......Page 232 12. In Our Mother’s Voice: A Native Woman’s Knowing of Leadership by Maenette K. P. AhNee-Benham......Page 234 13. Normalized Femininity: Reconsidering Research on Women in the Superintendency by Linda Skrla......Page 258 14. Troubling Policy Discourse: Gender, Constructions, and the Leadership Crisis by Michelle D. Young......Page 276 Author Biographies......Page 310 F......Page 314 S......Page 315 Z......Page 316 Ten prominent feminist researchers from diverse backgrounds examine educational leadership by focusing on critical questions about the theories, methods, and epistemologies feminist researchers use. The contributors analyze the impact of research on participants and assess the ethical and political implications of researching across groups. They explore the types of strategies feminist researchers have developed to address the problems of the field and propose alternative epistemologies that provide for more sensitive research methods and more complex research results. The book provides a timely examination of how gender inequalities were created and structured within U.S. systems of school administration, how they are maintained and perpetuated, and how they might best be understood and dismantled. Edited By Michelle D. Young, Linda Skrla. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.