Women Navigating Educational Leadership - (Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives) by Jana L Carlisle

Book Synopsis

This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women's experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges. The respondents possess different educational backgrounds, reflect different ethnic, racial and age groups, and inhabit varied roles and organizations, from public school districts, charter school networks, graduate schools of education, and partner/support organizations. Jana L. Carlisle responds to the underrepresentation of women in education leadership positions and the complicated and veiled routes women must take to ascend to leadership, and proposes the most applicable models, standards, strategies, and supports vital to women educational leaders.

Review Quotes

"This book is a thought-provoking exploration of the barriers women face in achieving leadership roles in education. The author not only highlights the challenges but also offers clear, research-based strategies for overcoming them. ... A valuable addition to the literature on leadership, especially for those interested in understanding and dismantling the structural inequities that persist in educational institutions." --Educational Review

"Insightful. Critical. Practical. A compass for leadership by all genders." --Kay Fuller, Professor of Gender and Educational Leadership, University of Nottingham, UK

"I believe this book is vital in stimulating our curiosity for knowledge and willingness to learn new things, to nurture as we grow. This book encourages us to enhance our aspirations by conducting and publishing policy related research. I believe different people, both young and old, will find this book valuable as they continue to learn and discover new things through reading. This book will help academicians, policy makers, and practitioners, both men and women, in understanding of talent management, worker motivation, management, and leadership in an educational settings and environment. It can help both leaders and managers to develop a shared vision and to get answers to various challenging questions which result into new constructive knowledge in our social environments. On the whole, this book is a masterpiece on 'Educational Leadership'." --Marie G. Nakitende, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration and Management, Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda

"This book does a masterful job of drawing from original research to inform our understanding of the experiences of women in educational leadership. It's engaging and the themes will resonate with those in the field." --Dana Dunn, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

About the Author

Jana L. Carlisle is Founder and Lead Consultant for Educational Support Consulting, USA.