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Superintendent Selection: Lessons from Political Science.
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Brunner, C. Cryss – 1994
Research has shown that women are underrepresented in positions of educational authority. This paper presents findings of a study that asked the following question: What is it about the regularities in discourse and practice in relationship to power in a particular community that would allow a woman to be selected for the superintendency, when…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Critical Theory, Females, Leadership Styles
Emancipatory Research: Support for Women's Access to Power. Draft.
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Brunner, C. Cryss – 1994
This paper presents findings of a critical ethnography that examined the relationship between gender and the definition of power, and its use in the politicized role of the superintendent. Based on Stewart Clegg's (1988) conceptualization of power relationships as "circuits of power," the ethnography was conducted in a larger metropolitan area…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Hermeneutics