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Guthrie, Marcelline Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In California women are underrepresented in the position of superintendent, yet are overrepresented in the field of education. The research questions for this study were (a) What are the processes used to hire superintendents? and (b) What are the processes when a woman is hired as superintendent? This research examined how organizational culture,…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Superintendents, Women Administrators, Organizational Culture
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O'Brien, Catherine A.; Placier, Peggy – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
From an ethnographic case study of a state-funded residential school for the Deaf, the authors employed Critical Discourse Analysis to identify competing discourses in the talk of educators. These discourses are embedded in the historical oppression and labeling of deaf people as disabled and the development of Deaf culture as a counter-discourse.…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Residential Schools, Special Schools