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Coloring Outside the Lines: Mentoring Women into School Leadershipreviewed by Mary Ann Maslak - 2002 Title: Coloring Outside the Lines: Mentoring Women into School Leadership Author(s): Mary E. Gardiner, Ernestine Enomoto, and Margaret Grogan Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791445828 , Pages: 249 , Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com The field of education formulates, studies, and grapples with
concepts and strategies aimed at advancing understanding of the
interactions of the multifarious elements in the educational
setting. In particular, the effort to reveal and unravel the
complex interaction between individuals' views of relationships on
the one hand, and the structural institutions that define them on
the other, has by turns generated and subscribed to a host of
theories and tenets, among which is feminist thought. Feminist
theory provides a fresh perspective and fills a glaring gap in the
educational administration literature, which has heretofore
under-estimated the significance of the poststructuralist approach
as a useful way in which we may examine and analyze those critical
and crucial interactions (and the operative elements therein) in
educational administration.
The book under review here, Coloring Outside the Lines:
Mentoring Women into School Leadership, represents an important
step toward conjoining feminist theoretical analyses with
educational administrative practice by examining feminist
poststructural thought as it relates to the concept of mentoring
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- Mary Maslak
St. John's University E-mail Author Mary Ann Maslak holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education from Penn State University. Her research focuses on comparative and international educational development, with a particular emphasis on girls’ and women’s education in South Asia. Currently, she is engaged in a book-length study on Nepal’s educational policy and practice as they relate to girls.
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