Gendered educational leadership: beneath the monoglossic façade

Fuller, Kay (2014) Gendered educational leadership: beneath the monoglossic façade. Gender and Education, 26 (4). pp. 321-337. ISSN 1360-0516

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Abstract

Recent gender retheorisation has drawn on Mikhail Bakhtin's literary and linguistic theories of monoglossia and heteroglossia to reconcile seemingly contradictory gender discourses. Thus, girls/women and boys/men as they are biologically sexed might be discussed within a poststructural gender theory discourse that disconnects gender from the body. The concepts of gender monoglossia, gender heteroglossia and polyglossia have been applied here to empirical research into the construction of gendered leadership as it was seen to be done by one woman head teacher. The accounts of members of staff expose heteroglossia in the articulation of their understandings of gendered leadership beneath the construction of a monoglossic façade. They also reveal an understanding of polyglossic simultaneity as the head teacher is observed to ‘switch’ seamlessly between modes of doing gendered leadership depending on context and circumstances. There is also evidence of polyglossic simultaneity in the reports that might lead to the rejection and/or redefinition of gender theory discourses.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/728402
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Gender and Education on 20 May 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540253.2014.907393
Keywords: Gender, School Leadership, Mikhail Bakhtin, Discourse, Gender Monoglossia and Heteroglossia, Multilingualism
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2014.907393
Depositing User: Collier, Elanor
Date Deposited: 26 Feb 2016 10:34
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:47
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/31938

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