Women in Leadership Across the Continents Undertaking Educational Responsibility

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session offers new insights into the means by which women as citizen-scholars in leadership seek to interrogate and address educational responsibility in their countries. Addressing AERA’s theme, “Accepting Educational Responsibility,” and the International Studies SIG’s mission, the session features five research investigations from Costa Rica, Fiji, Ireland, Pakistan, and Rwanda. These investigations examine scholarship that engages with a variety of stakeholders in these countries, leading to the transformation of education in authentic ways for the public good. Presenters explore how scholars in higher education in several international contexts and from diverse cultures share common ethical perspectives on the moral imperative to embrace educational responsibility through efforts that result in actionable narratives, policies, and practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-International Studies

Chair

• Elizabeth C. Reilly, Loyola Marymount University

Papers

• Educational Responsibility Among Costa Rican Women Leaders - Elizabeth C. Reilly, Loyola Marymount University

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

• Peace Education at the University of Rwanda and Its Impact on Educational Responsibility - Sarah Doerrer, Anne Arundel County Public Library

• Attitudes of Irish Women Teachers' Journey to the Principalship - Mary Elizabeth Cunneen, University College Dublin, Dublin,Ireland

• Early Career Experiences of Principal Investigators of Gender and Research - Victoria Showunmi, UCL Institute of Education, London

Discussant

• Victoria Showunmi, UCL Institute of Education, London