Full Description
This timely book advances a new vision for educational justice centered on the leadership activities, organizing efforts, and counternarratives of youth, parents, families, and communities of color and other groups who are seeking to transform local schools and communities across the United States. Bringing together scholars, activists, and leaders, this contributed volume presents cases and first-person narratives for readers to analyze in order to interrogate inequities facing communities and schools. By creating spaces for youth, family, and community leadership within schools and opening decision-making to include their input, leaders can support transformative, justice-oriented school change. This book is a critical teaching tool asking educators and administrators to reflect, learn, and re-imagine their practice and collaborate with other leaders in their communities.
Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Situating Youth, Family, and Community Leadership 2. Racism, Colonialism, and Neoliberalism in Education 3. Models of Youth-Family-Community-School Connections Part 2: Cases of Youth Leadership and Organizing 4. The Story of Lent Leopard Leaders: An Elementary Youth Leader Narrative 5. Growing with BSS: A Manual for Emmanuel 6. Leading for Change: Engaging Elementary Youth Voice in An In-School Makerspace 7. Youth Lighting the Path to Emancipatory Education 8. The Power of Alliances: A Case for Integrating Intersectionality into Social Justice Leadership Part 3: Cases of Parent and Family Leadership and Organizing 9. Becoming an Accidental Advocate for Transgender Students: A Parent Leadership Narrative 10. "Siempre Hay un Apoyo": Creating Humanizing Spaces amid an Anti-Immigrant Climate through Muxerista Organizing 11. Indigenous Youth and Families: From Schooling Contexts to Spaces of Stewardship and Resistance 12. Schools, Black Mothers, Black Children and the Tenets of Disillusionment Part 4: Cases of Community Organizing and Leadership 13. Small Town, Big Talk: A Community Leadership Narrative 14. "Hijacking a Public Process:" The School District and Community Activists in the Battle for Trustee Area Representation 15. A Critical Piece of the Puzzle: Leveraging Community-Based Leadership to Address Educational Inequities 16. Conclusion
