Making It Different? Islamic Religious Education, Gender and Leadership

To lead is to create a climate in which a human being and community flourish together. In trying to achieve this, a leader should be conscious of the ambivalent feelings of people and mindful of how to restore them. As a woman in a position of authority in a setting where there was a structural lack of recognition of women in leadership, recognizing the relationship of power and knowledge and building on expanded notions of respect and the skills of a Conceptual Clarity Model allowed the author to persist with dignity as a leader.