Out of Women's Experience: Creating Relational Leadership [Paperback]

This innovative book proposes a new model for comprehensive and effective leadership, drawn from the personal experiences and accounts of female educational leaders. The authors demonstrate how women conceptualize and practice their educational leadership roles in ways that differ significantly from most of their male counterparts. In redefining these differences as 'relational leadership', Regan and Brooks suggest that the attributes and skills that women bring to leadership are accessible and valuable to female and male school leaders alike.This innovative book proposes a new model for comprehensive and effective leadership, drawn from the personal experiences and accounts of female educational leaders. The authors demonstrate how women conceptualize and practice their educational leadership roles in ways that differ significantly from most of their male counterparts. In redefining these differences as 'relational leadership', Regan and Brooks suggest that the attributes and skills that women bring to leadership are accessible and valuable to female and male school leaders alike.The focus on gender issues and relational leadership stands out in this textIntroduction
Women's Experience as School Leaders
Two Metaphors of Culture
Gender as a Category of Experience
Feminist Attributes of Leadership
Relational Leadership at Work
Relational Knowing
A Process for Constructing Knowledge Out of Experience
No More Loss
In the Tradition of the Bluestockings, the Langham Place Group, and the Six-Point Group
Conclusion
Relational Leadership for Change