Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 48 Issue 6

Young women and the co‐construction of leadership

Rachel McNae

Young women's leadership is an area frequently overlooked in educational leadership development. This paper aims to bring young women's voices into educational leadership…

Female leadership and school effectiveness in junior high schools in Ghana

Clement Kwadzo Agezo

The purpose of this research is to examine female principal leadership practices that are considered crucial in the effectiveness and improvement of schools and school…

Arab women principals' empowerment and leadership in Israel

Tamar Shapira, Khalid Arar, Faisal Azaiza

This paper's purpose is to tell the life‐stories of four women who succeeded in forging paths to senior positions as principals in Arab schools in Israel and to describe the…

Modeling cultural context for aspiring women educational leaders

Jill Sperandio

The purpose of the paper is to discuss and examine the development of frameworks and models to guide future research into studies of women's paths to educational leadership…

The lived experiences of female educational leadership doctoral students

Katherine Cumings Mansfield, Anjalé Welton, Pei‐Ling Lee, Michelle D. Young

There is a meager body of research addressing the role educational leadership preparation programs in colleges and universities play in preparing women leaders. Also educational…

Unwritten: young women faculty in educational leadership

Whitney H. Sherman, Danna M. Beaty, Karen S. Crum, April Peters

As women professors of educational leadership who are involved with feminist research and the preparation of k‐12 women leaders, the authors came to the realization that while…

Lessons in spiritual leadership from Kenyan women

Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

The purpose of this paper is to explicate spiritual leadership lessons of beneficence, courage, hope and ubuntu/humanness that are derived from the experiences of women leaders in…

Women‐only (homophilous) networks supporting women leaders in education

Marianne Coleman

This paper aims to consider what all‐women networks have, and might offer, in terms of support and development of women in educational leadership.

Conclusion: women around the world reshaping leadership for education

Margaret Grogan

This short essay aims to reflect on the global experiences women in education have had in becoming leaders as noted in the articles in this special issue on women's leadership.

Women’s leadership across the globe

Whitney H. Sherman