Transformative Change Through Educational Leadership
Stories, Models, and Wonderings
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canadian Scholars
Published:31st Aug '24
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Transformative Change through Educational Leadership explores educational leadership with an emphasis on social justice. This text invites those in positions of leadership to re-imagine institutional standards, responsibilities, and leadership methodology through an equity-focused, anti-oppressive, and anti-colonial lens.
Diverse leaders and education experts from across Canada share their lived experiences, stories, models, and wonderings of the challenges that educational leaders face, including Indigenous, queer, and Afrocentric perspectives. The chapters delve into the critical question of what it takes to be a successful leader and offer practical strategies on various aspects of the school leader role, such as building relationships, centring student needs, connecting with the community and parents and caregivers, and supporting wellness and well-being.
This essential volume is well suited for undergraduate and graduate courses on educational leadership including courses focusing on diversity in leadership, leading for social justice, principles and processes of educational leadership, and education leadership for transformation.
"Transformative Change through Educational Leadership is an insightful and practical addition to leadership literature focused on transforming schools. Pre-service teacher education programs, schools, and school leadership will find this volume to be a valuable resource with relevant and current topics and discussion questions that can be a foundation for critical conversations on enabling transformative change." —Dr. Vicki Squires, Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Support and International Initiatives, and Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan
"This book tackles critical issues that educational leaders face while challenging the reader to think deeply—and differently—about the role of leadership in disrupting injustice and inequity and in creating hope for transformative change. Dr. MacKinnon brings together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners concerned with the ever-changing landscape of anti-oppressive leadership. The book graces the reader with anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and anti-colonial stories, models, and reflections that showcase leadership in action, and brings an extraordinary level of insight into transformative change through leadership. I heartily recommend it to everyone who is taking up a similar challenge." —Dr. Fei Wang, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
"Every year students say to me, 'I understand the importance of working towards social justice in educational leadership, but how do I actually do it?' Transformative Change through Educational Leadership answers this question. With hard-won insights, examples, and reflections, the authors and editor show how to bring equity, social justice, and anti-oppression into leadership practice. The diverse identities and perspectives of the authors and the thoughtful way the book is organized makes it essential reading for anyone interested in educational leadership and transformative change." — Dr. Joseph Levitan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University
ISBN: 9781773384245
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342 pages