Margaret Grogan & Charol Shakeshaft 
Women and Educational Leadership [EPUB ebook] 

This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at
leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in
education. The authors examine how successful women in education
lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing
these exemplary leadership practices.

Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities
that characterize women’s approaches to leadership differ from
traditional approaches?whether the traditional leader is a woman or
a man. The authors reveal that women leaders are more collaborative
by nature and demonstrate a commitment to social justice. They tend
to bring an instructional focus to leadership, include spiritual
dimensions in their work, and strive for balance between the
personal and professional.

This important book offers a new model of leadership that shifts
away from the traditional heroic notion of leadership to the
collective account of leadership that focuses on leadership for a
specific purpose–like social justice. The authors include
illustrative examples of leaders who have brought diverse groups to
work toward common ground. They also show how leadership is a way
to facilitate and support the work of organizational members. The
ideas and suggestions presented throughout the book can help the
next generation fulfill the promise of a new tradition of
leadership.

Women and Educational Leadership is part of the
Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education series.

Table of Content

Foreword by Beverly Hall ix

Introduction: Women Leaders Redefine Leadership 1

1. Five Ways Women Lead 5

Relational Leadership 6

Leadership for Social Justice 10

Spiritual Leadership 13

Leadership for Learning 18

Balanced Leadership 21

2. Our Status: Women School Administrators 27

History of Gender and School Leadership Research 31

Gender and Leading for Change 36

3. A New Way: Diverse Collective Leadership 41

Leading Collectively for Change 44

Relational Power 46

Social Network Theories and Change 48

Fluid Lines of Communication 51

The Power of Cognitive Shifts 54

Stages of Cognitive Shifts 57

4. A Closer Look at Collective Leadership in Practice 63

From Distributed Leadership to Diverse Collective Leadership 64

Three Ways to Support a Dynamic Culture 66

The Power of Integration: A Personal Skill 69

Working With and Through Others 72

School as Social Movement 75

5. Beyond Gender? 83

Leadership Shaped by Women 84

Making Meaning of Leadership 89

Embracing the Power of the Collective 92

Sustainable Leadership 96

Conclusion: Generating the Power of a Diverse Collective 101

References 107

Index 123

About the author

MARGARET GROGAN is dean of the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University.

CHAROL SHAKESHAFT is the department chair of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University.