Emiratiyat Embracing a Shifting World: Ways of Knowing Leadership in the United Arab Emirates

Abstract

This appreciative inquiry study frames and reflects upon other ways of knowing: beliefs, values, and experiences of identity, diversity, and gender as lived in the Arab world and specifically in the United Arab Emirates. It emphasizes the paradigms informing ways of leading for western expatriate females and Middle East gulf region national females in leadership positions. Western ideology related to diversity, gender, and leadership are all reflected in ways of leading in the global society that is the United Arab Emirates but in some ways are contrary to Islamic notions of women as leaders in the Gulf region causing educational leadership female expatriates and nationals to shift paradigms and revisit their identity, gender, feminist beliefs, and ways of knowing leadership working in a global society.

Citation

Davis, M., Abu Jaber, M., AlSumaiti, R. and Williams, B. (2016), "Emiratiyat Embracing a Shifting World: Ways of Knowing Leadership in the United Arab Emirates", Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women Leading Education: A Worldview (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 55-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-366020160000025004