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Sacred dreams : women and the superintendency
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Sacred dreams : women and the superintendency

Author: C Cryss Brunner
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999.
Series: SUNY series in women in education.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: C Cryss Brunner
ISBN: 0791441598 9780791441596 0791441601 9780791441602
OCLC Number: 39533816
Description: xvi, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "Scattered all over the road" / C. Cryss Brunner --
Part 1: "Crawling through the window of a dream"--surveying the terrain / C. Cryss Brunner --
Chapter 1: "Turning our the ladies": elected women superintendents and the push for the appointive system, 1900-1935 / Jackie M. Blount --
Chapter 2: Women and the superintendency: What do we really know? / Marilyn Tallerico --
Part 2: "Do it anyway"--gaining access / C. Cryss Brunner --
Chapter 3: The role of search consultants in the career paths of women superintendents / Estelle Kamler and Charol Shakeshaft --
Chapter 4: Power, gender, and superintendent selection / C. Cryss Brunner --
Chapter 5: Climbing hills and mountains: black females making it to the superintendency / Judy A. Alston --
Chapter 6: Seeking and selecting Hispanic female superintendents / Flora Ida Ortiz --
Part 3: "Small but brilliant"--living the life / C. Cryss Brunner --
Chapter 7: The first years: what should a female superintendent know beforehand? / Barbara Nelson Pavan --
Chapter 8: Redefinition of self: Mexican-American women becoming superintendents / Sylvia E. Méndez-Morse --
Chapter 9: Getting inside history--against all odds: African American women school superintendents / Barbara L. Jackson --
Chapter 10: Dancing in red shoes: why women leave the superintendency / Cynthia Beekley --
Part 4: "One's true song"--authenticating research / C. Cryss Brunner --
Chapter 11: "Back talk" from a woman superintendent: Just how useful is research? / C. Cryss Brunner --
Chapter 12: A feminist poststructuralist account of collaboration: a model for the superintendency / Margaret Grogan --
Chapter 13: Thoughtful practice: responding with questions from the superintendency / Debra Jackson --
Epilogue / Susan Chase.
Series Title: SUNY series in women in education.
Responsibility: edited by C. Cryss Brunner.

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