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Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education

Managing to Survive in the Education Marketplace?

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Authors:
  1. Barbara Thompson

    1. University of Chichester, Chichester, United Kingdom

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  • Highlights the prevalent position of women within teacher education
  • Examines a range of positive and negative experiences faced by women managers in teacher education
  • Draws on case studies from a variety of women in the United Kingdom
  • Emphasises the difference in approaches between individuals to the challenges and dilemmas in their educational workplaces

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Setting the Scene

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 1-11

  3. Women: Management and Leadership

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 13-44

  4. Women: Educational Management and Leadership

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 45-74

  5. The Particular Story of the Management of Teacher Education

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 75-88

  6. Neoliberalism, New Managerialism, Policies and Practices

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 89-123

  7. Researching Women Managers and Leaders

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 125-162

  8. Women: Returning to Manage Initial Teacher Education

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 163-187

  9. Extraordinary Women: Senior Women Managers and Leaders

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 189-217

  10. Managing to Survive in Risky Times?

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 219-260

  11. Looking to the Future: The Struggle for Teacher Education

    • Barbara Thompson
    Pages 261-269

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 271-285
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About this book

This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face. Teacher education is at the forefront of education reforms and yet little is known about the professional lives of those who work within it. Whereas many women are moving into positions of authority in teacher training, some existing women managers are being marginalized within new internally differentiated layers of managerial structures. Yet other female managers, mainly new appointees, seem to endorse the discourses associated with new managerialist practices. Simultaneously some women who manage in teacher training are engaged in a struggle for survival individually and professionally. In the main, men seem to be missing from authority positions and will conclude that, in the current climate, the management of teacher training is ‘no job for a man’.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Chichester, Chichester, United Kingdom

    Barbara Thompson

About the author

Barbara Thompson is Principal Lecturer in the Institute of Education at the University of Chichester, UK. She was Programme Leader for Chichester’s PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) Primary Programme and later the MA (Education) Programme. Barbara publishes in the field of gender and has a PhD in Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education.

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