For the Public Good: Women in Educational Leadership Across the Continents

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session provides new insights into the means by which women in leadership seek to disrupt the status quo in their countries and address the global public good. Addressing AERA’s theme, “The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholders Collaborate,” the session features five research investigations from Costa Rica, Fiji, Ireland, Pakistan, and Rwanda. They invite scholarly practices that engage with a variety of stakeholders, leading to narratives, policies, and practices aimed at transforming civil society for the public good. Presenters explore how scholars in higher education from diverse cultures share common values that provide nuanced and sophisticated progress toward establishing societies committed to transforming power dynamics and leading to new narratives, policies, and practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-International Studies

Chair

• Elizabeth C. Reilly, Loyola Marymount University

Papers

• Costa Rican Women Leaders Promoting Gender Equity as the Public Good - Elizabeth C. Reilly, Loyola Marymount University

• Women Educators as Change Agents in Rural Fiji - Elizabeth Yomantas, Pepperdine University

• Impact, Implementation, and Insights of Peace Education: A Case Study of the M.A. in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation Program at the University of Rwanda - Sarah Doerrer, Anne Arundel County Public Library

• Storying the Route to the Principalship: Contrasting Attitudes of Irish Women Teachers - Mary Elizabeth Cunneen, University College Dublin, Dublin,Ireland

• Biographical Portraits of Three Principal Investigators Into Gender and Research - Victoria Showunmi, UCL Institute of Education, London

Discussant

• Margaret Grogan, Chapman University