"Passing the Baton." Women, Education Leadership, and Convent Schooling in Pakistan: A Stakeholder/Researcher Collaboration

• In Event: Women in Leadership: Stories of Negotiation, Leverage, and Social Justice

Abstract

This paper engages with the conference aim to ‘look consciously to our past as we seek to engage organizational stakeholders in the present.’ Many convent schools for girls in Pakistan were founded by Sisters, who came from Ireland as part of a wave of missionary activity that had originated in the nineteenth century. From the second half of the twentieth century, Sisters began exiting from mission schooling in the developing world. This withdrawal took place over the past two decades. We examine the self-described views of Pakistani women, as they determine ways to lead their schools in the twenty-first century. The stakeholders are the owners of the schools (Sisters in Pakistan), and the new generation of school principals (Pakistani women).

Authors

• Deirdre Raftery, University College Dublin

• RUTH FERRIS, University College Dublin

• Mags Liddy, University College Dublin

• Marie Clarke, University College Dublin

• Seaneen Sloan, University College Dublin