Coloring Outside the Lines: Mentoring Women into School Leadership (Suny Series in Women in Education) - Softcover

Gardiner, Mary E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791445828 ISBN 13: 9780791445822

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Presents new practices and ideas for mentoring women for school leadership positions.

Coloring outside the Lines critically looks at mentoring from the perspective of women who have been historically marginalized in school leadership, and grounds itself in a variety of experiences, including those of women school leaders of color. Using a feminist poststructuralist framework, the authors deconstruct the mentoring of women within the culture of K-12 public school administration in which they work. Providing arguments that mentoring has been and can be discriminatory, the authors explore it as a vehicle for transformation and change in education leadership rather than abandoning it completely.

"The extant literature in educational administration tends toward a rather unquestioned acceptance of mentoring as a benefit/panacea for the field. This book provides a balanced look at both its potentials and its downsides. While challenging conventional wisdom about mentoring, the authors do not advocate its abandonment. Rather, they provide an element of hopefulness, well grounded in their analyses, regarding mentoring's potential to bring different perspectives and emphases to what's important about leading America's schools." — Marilyn Tallerico, author of Accessing the Superintendency: The Unwritten Rules

"The specific and sustained attention that the authors devote to the experiences of women school leaders of color is refreshing and important. The main point of the book, that mentoring relationships greatly shape women's growth in school leadership, is a critically important facet of how discriminatory practices are perpetuated or explored." — Jackie M. Blount, author of Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995

About this title

About the Authors

Mary E. Henry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology at Washington State University and is the author of School Cultures: Universes of Meaning in Private Schools. She is coeditor of Curriculum in Context, the journal of the Washington State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and is on the editorial board of The Urban Review.

Margaret Grogan is Dean of the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She is coauthor (with Mary E. Gardiner and Ernestine Enomoto) of Coloring outside the Lines: Mentoring Women into School Leadership and coeditor (with Daniel L. Duke, Pamela D. Tucker, and Walter F. Heinecke) of Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability: The Virginia Experience, both also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791445828
• ISBN 13: 9780791445822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264