Women principals in a multicultural society : : new insights into feminist educational leadership / / edited by Izhar Oplatka and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz.

• TeilnehmendeR: Oplatka, Izhar,; Hertz-Lazarovits, RahÌ£el,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The book analyzes the crossing issues of gender, school leadership and multicultural experiences as expressed in accounts of female school principals from diverse ethnic and religious groups in the multicultural society of Israel. It addresses the usually unheard voices of women principals in ethnic and religious minority groups that act and live in a modern country but their place is marginalized. Jewish and Moslem Authors, all citizens of Israel, display the particular life and career accounts of female principals from the Arab, Bedouin, Kibbutzim, liberal and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups. They are accompanied by authors from Canada, Hong-Kong and England who suggest a multicultural and post-structuralist feminist views to look at female leadership in the multicultural society. In this sense, they book contributes to our understanding of the influence of cultural scripts and values on women principals’ leadership styles and career development, as well as suggest an alternative way to interpret dominant feminist conceptualizations of female leadership. The book may be of interest for researchers in the fields of education, feminism, women management, multiculturalism, Israel studies and minorities. Educators of a higher level such as principals, supervisors and policy makers as well as graduate students will find the book chapters very contributing to their work and studies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Izhar Oplatka and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz -- Introduction / Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz and Izhar Oplatka -- Women's leadership in education / Izhar Oplatka and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz -- Women, educational leadership, and cultural context / Clive Dimmack and Allan Walker -- Women in the Israeli Educational System / Audrey Addi-Raccah -- Why are there so few Palestinian Women in Principalship positions? / Nabil Khattab and Jamil Ibrahim -- Equality, Autonomy, and innovativeness / Izhar Oplatka -- The diamond workshop / Mira Karnieli -- "They felt I raped a role that was not supposed to be mine" / Sarah Aburabia-Queder -- Leadership in a multicultural school / Devorah Eden and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- Women as participative leaders / Anit Somech -- Seeing beyond difference / Janice Wallace -- Epilogue: Feminist Pedagogy / Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz and lzhar Oplatka -- Bio Notes / Izhar Oplatka and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz.