2013
DOI: 10.7202/1014867ar
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An Empirical Study of the Career Paths of Senior Educational Administrators in Manitoba, Canada: Implications for career development

Abstract: This paper conceptualizes queue theory (Tallerico & Blount, 2004) to discuss a mixed-methods study that determined the career patterns of senior educational administrators in public school divisions in Manitoba, Canada, compared by position, context and sex. Findings indicate that queue theory has merit for describing the career paths of senior administrators in Manitoba, but it must be qualified. Context creates labour queue stratifications based on educational level (access), the extent to which senior admin… Show more

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“…Grogan (2000) contends that looking through a feminist lens upon the superintendency acknowledges the often tacit reality that not only have the majority of researchers been men but most superintendents have also been men. Wallin (2010Wallin ( , 2013 and others (Kachur-Reico & Wallin, 2012;Wallin & Crippen, 2007 have made the same argument in the Canadian context, while Biklin and Shakeshaft (1985) argue that if gender is a useful analytical perspective, then drawing upon the experiences of women in the position will assist our understanding of leadership and schools, "since an inadequate conception of the female experience distorts our perspectives on the human experience as a whole" (p. 47).…”
Section: Transforming Leadershipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Grogan (2000) contends that looking through a feminist lens upon the superintendency acknowledges the often tacit reality that not only have the majority of researchers been men but most superintendents have also been men. Wallin (2010Wallin ( , 2013 and others (Kachur-Reico & Wallin, 2012;Wallin & Crippen, 2007 have made the same argument in the Canadian context, while Biklin and Shakeshaft (1985) argue that if gender is a useful analytical perspective, then drawing upon the experiences of women in the position will assist our understanding of leadership and schools, "since an inadequate conception of the female experience distorts our perspectives on the human experience as a whole" (p. 47).…”
Section: Transforming Leadershipmentioning
confidence: 99%