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'The Other Within' : race/gender disruptions to the professional learning of white educational leaders
Leslie Roman states 'white is a colour too'. Yet the whiteness of educational leaders is rarely questioned, although masculinism—the enduring capacity of different masculinities to remain the norm in leadership—is increasingly under scrutiny. Rarely do white men or women leaders question their whiteness, whereas indigenous and other minority groups, as a consequence of their being 'other than white', are expected to explain their exclusion. Instead, the 'problem' is depicted as the lack of 'the Other', and therefore a problem for and of 'the Other'. This article confronts normative whiteness in educational administration from the perspective of feminist and critical race theory, considering how foregrounding whiteness in leadership is a necessary condition of inclusive education and leadership.
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International journal of leadership in educationVolume
13Issue
1Pagination
45 - 61Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1360-3124eISSN
1464-5092Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2010, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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