Resilience and the Rural Social Justice Leader

• In Event: Leadership in Rural Contexts

Abstract

Over the last decade, several scholars have proposed frameworks for social justice and equity leadership. In analyzing the commonalities between these various frameworks and their application to rural social justice leadership (Maxwell & Scheurich, 2011) the concept of resiliency, defined for purposes of this study as, “the notion of overcoming adversity” (Hegney, et al., 2007), surfaced as a strong, common theme subsuming and overlapping several other characteristics among the frameworks to the extent that it became the focus of this particular study.

Authors

• Gerri Marie Maxwell, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

• James Joseph "Jim" Scheurich, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis