How Female Students Are "Educated" to Retreat from Leadership: An Example from the Chinese Schooling Context

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1 janvier 2021

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gender leadership education sociology of education Chinese educational context


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Yijie Wang et al., « How Female Students Are "Educated" to Retreat from Leadership: An Example from the Chinese Schooling Context », Education as Change, ID : 10670/1.vo6tto


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Women's continued under-representation in leadership positions is well documented. This article asserts that part of the reason for this can be found within educational settings. Chinese educational environments are examined using secondary data analysis, and it is argued that a) the protective approach that teachers adopt towards female students, b) the reserved and unworldly female images exhibited by textbooks, and c) the improper view of leadership that girls tend to develop through classroom-based leadership experiences combine to damage girls' leadership potential. These mechanisms are usually unintentional and hard to detect, which means that part of the solution lies in promoting the awareness of teachers and educational leaders. Meanwhile, it is important to note that this issue is not merely about equal treatment for both genders; rather, it is broadly linked to our construction of leadership as a concept. Ultimately, the educational setting is expected not only to produce an equal number of "great women" and "great men", but also-partly through its explorations of how to cultivate the female version of a "great man"-to contribute to updating and advancing the "leadership" concept and practice as a whole.

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