It is generally accepted that women leaders are good communicators than men. Consequently, it is accepted (or assumed) that they are good instructional leaders than male school leaders. Do these assertions hold water in a developing country context?
Dear Dr. Alfred Henry Makura ,
I agree with Dr. Ben Levin
. It depends. It's hard to say but I would not concentrate on gender. Professionalism, appropriate skills and natural talent are more relevant.Best,
Dr. Vardan Atoyan
From my experience, I would say yes. It may not be due to the gender per se but to the differences it implies as a matter of fact in terms of education, experience, social expectations, mentalities... But this is not proof, it is just an impression which may be (or not) confirmed by appropriate studies.
I met many good leaders in teaching, both women and men. I don't see the gender-related variable being distinctive for this issue.
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One’s Gender may not be the most suitable way to gauge whether a leadership role is handled best by one or the other. I would rather focus on competence and passion of different individuals.
From experience, teachers who are passionate about their job produce impressive results in the performance and character of their students. Remember children whether young or old can tell or sense whether you are interested in them as unique individuals or are doing the job probably because you were desperate to earn a living.
in respect of this, one should note that individual is a combination of soul and body. The soul is uniform in nature while the body can be categorize into male and female (gender). Although to some extent sex and gender are two different concept. While sex is first naturally biological determine, gender is social generally social determine and which vary from a society to another.
Going by male and female (as sex is first naturally biological determine), in many third world countries due to female closeness to kits at home gave them aid in training and teaching within their domain (this is also relative). As the society changes just as mode production and relation of production, some men become more closer to kits than women.
This have deleted gender relevant in effectiveness and efficacy of service delivery. Two factor has become key in this case i.e. one passion for teaching, training and school leadership and to some extent, level of training acquired.
I don't think there is any relation between gender and instructional leadership. What I feel- it is a wrong lens to see such things.
In the developing countries, mostly the females are hired for KG (Kindergarten) up till primary classes because the males do not regard it good to teach in the junior classes. One reason for female dominance is because of the abundance of graduated females which may not be able to strive for higher studies ends up with marriage and find no other reasonable job than ending up with teaching.
Another reason is the stereotypical mindset that females shall not endeavour for a site job among males. Also kids are more connected with mothers, so female teachers naturally appears to be their mothers in school and females find it easier to show more attention towards their students as their own kids.
Leaders and teachers are absolutely different. I do believe women are more accepted as teachers at school.
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