Kathleen M. Brown

Catherine A. Lugg

Jeffrey S. Brooks

George Theoharis

Joanne M. Marshall

Leslie Hazle Bussey

Bonnie Fusarelli

Latish C. Reed

Mark A. Gooden

Challenges of work-life balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many of the not-work aspects of their lives. Imagine a tweedy middle-aged white man, coming home from the university to greet his wife and children and eat the dinner she’s prepared for him, and then disappearing into his study for the rest of the evening with his pipe to write and think great thoughts. If that professor ever existed, he is now emeritus. Juggling Flaming Chainsaws is the first book in a new series with Information Age Publishing on these challenges of managing academic work and not-work. It uses the methodology of autoethnography to introduce the work-life issues faced by scholars in educational leadership. While the experiences of scholars in this volume are echoed across other fields in higher education, educational leadership is unique because of its emphasis on preparing people for leadership roles within higher education and for preK-12 schools. Authors include people at different places on their career and life course trajectory, people who are partnered and single, gay and straight, with children and without, caring for elders, and managing illness. They hail from different geographic areas of the nation, different ethnic backgrounds, and different types of institutions. What all have in common is commitment to engaging with this topic, to reflecting deeply upon their own experience, and to sharing that experience with the rest of us.

Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family

Juggling Flaming Chain Saws

Peter McLaren

Petar Jandric

Sonia Nieto

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Melanie C. Brooks

John M. Heffron

Haiyan Qian

Allan Walker

Lisa Catherine Ehrich

Fenwick W. English

Atiya S. Strothers

Susan C. Faircloth

Michelle D. Young

Bryan A. VanGronigen

Polly Hyslop

Brian Jarrett

Izhar Oplatka

Gaetane Jean-Marie

Catherine M. Marshall

Becca Merrill

Jackie M. Blount

Whitney McIntyre Miller

Margaret Grogan

To help American education leaders create more just and equitable schools, an impressive group of scholars present profiles of a wide range of outstanding historical and contemporary leaders from across the globe including Wangari Mathaai, John Tippeconic III, Fannie Lou Hamer, Saul Alinsky, Antonia Pantoja, Jimmy Carter, and Golda Meir.

Lessons for Creating Just and Equitable Schools

Leading Against the Grain

Kitsch-or tacky, simplistic art and art forms-is used by various political actors to shape and limit what we know about ourselves, what we know about our past and our future, as well as what our present-day public policy options might be. Using a plethora of historic and contemporary examples (such as Forrest Gump and Boys Town), the author maps out how kitsch is employed in various political and educational sites to shape public opinion and understandings.

From Education to Public Policy

Kitsch

Catherine A. Lugg

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