Women Navigating Educational Leadership
By (Author) Jana L. Carlisle
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
24th July 2025
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Educational systems and structures
Paperback
272
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around womens 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.
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. Its engaging and the themes will resonate with those in the field. -- Dana Dunn, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Jana L. Carlisle is Founder and Lead Consultant for Educational Support Consulting, USA.