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Autore: | Blackmore Jill |
Titolo: | Performing and reforming leaders [[electronic resource] ] : gender, educational restructuring, and organizational change / / Jill Blackmore and Judyth Sachs |
Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina: | 371.20082 |
Soggetto topico: | Women educators |
Educational leadership | |
Altri autori: | SachsJudyth <1954-> |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-299) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- PERFORMING AND REFORMING LEADERS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION "Living at the Crossroads" -- EDUCATIONAL RESTRUCTURING -- SITUATING THE STUDY -- STRUCTURING THE TEXT -- POSITIONING OURSELVES -- 1. Risky Times for Women Leaders -- SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE? -- GENDER, RESTRUCTURING,AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS -- AMBIVALENCE, AMBIGUITY, AND CONTRADICTION -- SOME THEORETICAL DISPOSITIONS -- PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSES, INSTITUTIONALMETANARRATIVES, AND WORK IDENTITY -- PERFORMATIVITY AND PASSION -- 2. Restructuring Education -- GLOBALIZATION AND THE PERFORMATIVE STATE -- TRAVELING POLICIES -- AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION RESTRUCTURED -- THE STRATEGIES OF CORPORATIZATION -- LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?"QUASIMARKETS" STRUCTURING OPPORTUNITIES -- HYBRID MANAGERIALISM -- CULTURAL RESTRUCTURING AND THE"RENORMING" OF EDUCATION -- 3. Gender Restructuring:Toxic, Volatile, and Greedy Organizations -- THE UPSIDES -- THE DOWNSIDES -- WORKING HARDER: LABOR INTENSIFICATION -- WORKING FLEXIBLY:CASUALIZING EDUCATIONAL LABOR -- WORKING "SMARTER"?VOLATILE AND TOXIC CULTURES -- GREEDY ORGANIZATIONS: REPRIVATIZING WORK -- WEARY, WORRIED, AND WORN OUT -- 4. "Lived Contradictions":Gender, Professionalism,and the Crisis of Trust -- PROFESSIONALISM MADE OVER -- THE DISCURSIVE UNDOING OFEDUCATION PROFESSIONALISM -- TEACHING: DEMOCRATIC ORMANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALISM? -- ACADEMICS: PROFESSIONAL EXPERTSAND/OR PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS? -- TRAINING: ENTREPRENEURIAL OR JUST PRAGMATIC? -- CROSS-SECTORAL PATTERNS,TRENDS, AND LOCAL GENDER POLITICS -- 5. Giving an Account:Performing Educational Work and Working to Perform -- THE PERFORMATIVE STATE ANDORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMATIVITY -- PERFORMATIVITY RULES -- REHEARSING THE PERFORMANCE -- REFORMING TO PERFORMTHROUGH ACCOUNTABILITY -- "REAL" WORK -- CONTESTED ACCOUNTABILITY. |
LOGICS OF PRACTICE:ANOREXIC ORGANIZATIONS LIVING ON AUDITS -- 6. Accidental Leaders Acting Out and Acting Up -- LEADERSHIP AND THE DISCOURSE OF REFORM -- LEADERSHIP HABITUS -- OFTEN "ACCIDENTAL," SOMETIMES "RELUCTANT,"BUT FOREVER "ACTING" LEADERS -- OPENING AND CLOSING WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY -- MOVING UP THE LADDER:A MATTER OF COMMITMENT? -- LEARNING LEADERSHIP THROUGH DOING -- "FEELING DIFFERENT": ISSUES OFREPRESENTATION AND RE-PRESENTATION -- REFLEXIVITY: MAKING MISTAKESAND PRACTICAL ACTION -- 7. Managing the Self:The Consuming Passions of Performing and Re-forming Leadership -- RESTRUCTURING LEADERSHIP -- MANAGING LEADERS OR LEADING MANAGERS? -- CONTEXT AND THE CONSTRUCTIONOF THE SELF-AS-LEADER -- EDUCATION AS PASSIONATE WORK -- PURPOSIVE LEADERSHIP -- POWER/AUTHORITY -- PERFORMANCE AND MANAGINGTHE "EMBODIED" PUBLIC SELF -- LEADERSHIP AS RELATIONAL AND ETHICAL WORK -- 8. Caught between Acts:Middle Managers Mediating Change Up and Down -- PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: SOLUTION OR PROBLEM? -- "RESPONSIBILIZATION" AND THEDISPERSAL OF MANAGEMENT WORK -- POSITIONS, PERSPECTIVES, AND POSSIBILITIES -- NEW MODES OF GOVERNANCE -- BUFFERING CHANGE -- RESISTANCE, INVESTMENT, AND IDENTITY -- "JUST GETTING THINGS DONE":THE DANGERS OF PRACTICAL RATIONALITY -- 9. The Managerial Dilemma:Counterintuitive Impulses of Performativity and Passion -- DOING WELL AND DOING GOOD -- THE SOCIOPSYCHIC ECONOMY -- THE EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT WORK OF CHANGE -- MANAGING THE SOCIOPSYCHIC ECONOMY -- COMPLIANCE AND COMPROMISE -- A CRISIS IN MEANING -- 10. Progression and Regression:Managing Diversity, Equity,and Equal Opportunity -- RESTRUCTURING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY:THE LEGACIES OF GENDER EQUITY REFORM -- POLICY SHIFT: FROM EQUAL OPPORTUNITYTO MANAGING DIVERSITY -- PROMOTING WOMEN -- EQUITY DISCOURSES: STRATEGIC,SYMBOLIC, AND INTERVENTIONIST -- BACKLASH POLITICS -- UNDERSTANDING GENDER REFORM. | |
BEYOND THE "BODY COUNT" -- 11. Conclusion:Separation, Transition,and Incorporation? -- EQUITY AS THE TOUCHSTONE:WHAT "STATE" ARE WE IN NOW? -- PARADOXICAL RESTRUCTURINGYET AGAIN IN THE "NEW MILLENIUM" -- LIFELONG LEARNING OR AREVITALIZED VOCATIONAL/ACADEMIC DIVIDE? -- RESTRUCTURING, ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE,AND THE RENORMING OF EDUCATION -- LEADING AND MANAGING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE,NOT JUST WORKING HARDER AND SMARTER -- GENDER AS A USEFUL ANALYTIC FOCUS -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Explores the issues inherent in critical and postmodern feminism in educational leadership. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Performing and reforming leaders |
ISBN: | 0-7914-8040-2 |
1-4294-7142-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808926103321 |
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