Leadership for Social Justice: Coming to Know Another Possibility

• In Event: 25.048 - Social Justice Tensions in the Principalship and Other School Leadership Roles

Abstract

In this paper, I respond to the following research questions: What can I, as a leader, really do? What did I do as a leader of a new school? And what can the narrative teach me and others? My experiences as an undergraduate student, graduate student and then as a principal of a new school create the backdrop of a larger narrative about public schooling and leadership. Traditional notions of learning, teaching, schooling and leading, contribute to the inequity and injustice found in schools. Nevertheless, schools do not have to beget oppression. This autoethnographic study contributes to the larger body of literature related to public schooling, leadership, and the ways in which schools could be liberatory.

Authors

• Jacob Daniel Skousen, University of Northern Colorado

• Kathleen M. Budge, Boise State University