The Social Construction of Educational Leadership
Subtitle: Southern Appalachian Ceilings (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), V. 255.)
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Published: September 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780820468129
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Administration - General; North American; Leadership; Education; Education / Teaching; Appalachian Region, Southern; Educational leadership; Employment; History; Social conditions; Women; Women school administrators
Description: "The Social Construction of Educational Leadership: Southern Appalachian Ceilings addresses decisions about who is chosen to lead public schools, and how they do it. Using their research on senior level public school leaders in the southern mountains of North Carolina as a representative case study, the authors construct an argument for a reconsideration of the role of place - both in decisions about who becomes a school leader, and in how those leaders behave professionally.

The authors describe the changes in a leadership system grounded in race, class, geographic, and gender preferences that dating back to colonial systems of deference, describing the pattern of those changes, and exploring their implications for school leadership, and the preparation of prospective leaders in the region and elsewhere."--Jacket.