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Women's Leadership of "Much Needed National Work" in Wartime Education
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Whitehead, Kay – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2016
While there is a wealth of feminist research on women's educational leadership and policy-making in the interwar years, this article extends the discussion into the Second World War. My focus is the educational leadership of Dorothy Walker, head teacher of St Peter's Infant School and the youngest head teacher in Birmingham, and Lillian de Lissa,…
Descriptors: War, Educational History, Instructional Leadership, Women Administrators