This book focuses on leadership with an emphasis on women as leaders in science education. It responds to the call in the Association for Science Teacher Education’s ASTE Newsletter by then-President Simmons to “schedule regular professional development on leadership that targets leadership skills and capacities” for “all of us to develop, strengthen, and share leadership capacity in all contexts of our professional lives” (2005, p.2). This book is critically needed because of the paucity of literature about women’s leadership within the science education community. According to studies in science and mathematics education, leadership in these areas is not well understood (Gallagher et al., 2008a, 2008b). Leadership in science education may be different from leadership in other professional fields such as business and government, which are more widely studied.
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Wieseman, K.C., Weinburgh, M.H. (2009). Introduction: Seeds Germinating and Growing. In: Wieseman, K.C., Weinburgh, M.H. (eds) Women’s Experiences in Leadership in K-16 Science Education Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2239-4_2
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