Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education

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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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’.

• Teacher training
• Marketplace
• Public sector reform
• Women
• Academia
• Female leaders
• Coping strategies
• Educational institutions
• Managerial structures
• Positions of authority
• Professional individualism
• Professional hierarchy
• education
• gender
• management
• teacher education
• teaching

• University of Chichester, Chichester, United Kingdom

  Barbara Thompson

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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