26.014 - Toward Justice in Educational Leadership: Disrupting the "Privilege Imperative" Through Unspoken Histories of Unequal Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This presidential session features the unspoken histories of unequal education grounded in the counternarratives of historically excluded and disenfranchised communities (i.e., Black American, Mexican American, and Asian/American) in the U.S.A. and their importance in disrupting educational leadership dispositions and practices that systematically privilege some students and school communities over others based on their racial, socioeconomic, cultural, and immigrant status. Panelists will present findings from their historical and community-based research that captures these unspoken educational histories and the utility of such stories in raising awareness among educational leaders to disrupt leadership for the privilege imperative and advance leadership toward justice.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Cosette M. Grant

Papers

• (Re)Claiming Our Educational Histories: Lessons of Leadership, Resilience and Activism from South Texas - Enrique Aleman, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Losing in Las Vegas: The Politics of School Desegregation, Leadership, and Reform in the West - Sonya Douglass Horsford, George Mason University

• Considering Counter-Stories of Leadership from Asian-American Refugee Communities - Thu Suong Thi Nguyen, Indiana University - IUPUI; Brendan D. Maxcy, Indiana University - IUPUI

Discussant

• Rodney K. Hopson, George Mason University