Full Description
This book advocates for informed leaders who are aware of the larger historical, political-economic, sociological, and philosophical issues that surround the schools and communities they serve. Extending beyond mainstream conceptions of instructional leadership and broad social justice paradigms, Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice offers a multidisciplinary framework that helps leaders better serve the needs of their students, teachers, and communities. Exploring issues of urban school reform as it relates to the principal, as well as priorities that are relevant to the process of school improvement and the promotion of social justice, this book provides a critical, equity-oriented set of best practices grounded in research and empirical cases. This is a must-have resource for building consciousness, offering hope, and engaging in dialogical and collaborative leadership practices to radically transform schools and communities.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Exploring Urban Communities, Schools, and Reform
Chapter 2: Neighborhoods of (In)Opportunity
Chapter 3: Racial Segregation and Urban Schools
Chapter 4: A History of Urban School Reform
Chapter 5: Schools as Social Institutions
Part II: Toward a Critical and Community Engaged Leadership
Chapter 6: The Science of Educational Administration
Chapter 7: Alternative Ways of Knowing and Leading
Chapter 8: Leading for Social Justice
Chapter 9: Critical Cases of Leadership in Low-Opportunity Communities
Conclusion: New Knowledge Requires New Commitments
