Leader as Learner, Leader as Human

• In Event: Using Critical Narrative Methods to Improve Equity Leadership Pedagogy

Abstract

People respond to equity work in cognitive, emotional, conceptual, physiological, moral, and technical ways. Leaders need frameworks and strategies for understanding these responses, and to position themselves as “lead learners” who reflect on their own experiences and identities, learn about histories and perspectives that are different than their own, explore how these connect with the broader context of inequity and inequality, and work through their emotional responses to these realities (Theoharis, 2009). This story describes the intellectual and emotional load involved in grappling with historical and structural inequity and injustice.

Author

• Gretchen Givens Generett, Duquesne University