Balancing Acts: Women Principals at Work

Offers surprising insights into the complex worlds of women principals.
Balancing Acts uses life history and ethnography to examine the lives and work of three female elementary school principals and highlights their daily use of personal and professional skills. Smulyan examines the principals' personal backgrounds and their effect on their work within the community they serve, their school, and the historical and social structures that frame their actions and interactions. What emerges is a fascinating personal view of the dilemmas, decisions, and consequences faced by the female principalship.

About the author

Lisa Smulyan is Associate Professor of Education at Swarthmore College. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Sally I. Powers, of Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships and Challenges, and, with Sharon Nodie Oja, of Collaborative Action Research: A Developmental Process.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Smulyan
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780791445174
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4517-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Suny Series, Women in Educatio; Suny Series, Women in Educatio; Suny Women in Education
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system