Board of Trustees

  • KEREN BROOKING Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education Massey University College of Education

Abstract

This brief overview of my research explores the impact of one aspect of New Zealand's self-managing reforms on the changing and predicted gender profile of the principalship in primary schools. The research in progress is a national study of boards of trustees' selection practices of principals carried out in 2002. It examines how trustees interpret and act upon often contradictory and conflicting official discourses from self-managing policies and Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) legislation, as well as populist discourses mobilised by the media. Using feminist discourse theory (Bacchi 2000) I argue that the reforms have not contributed to a significant shift in the gender diversity representation of the principalship.

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Published
2023-11-03
How to Cite
BROOKING, K. (2023). Board of Trustees. Teachers’ Work, 1(1), 27-31. https://doi.org/10.24135/teacherswork.v1i1.152
Section
Research overviews