Social Justice Focus in Educational Leadership Program at a Historically Black Institution

• In Event: 43.077 - MTCC Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: 43.077-10 - Social Justice Leadership, Leaders, and Disrupting Power

Abstract

Scholars have insisted for decades that social justice oriented educational leadership will better serve the needs of diverse student populations. Educator preparation and administrative certification programs have responded by adopting social justice orientations. However, the preponderance of these programs are concentrated at the undergraduate and master’s level and at the doctoral level, at Predominately White Institutions (PWIs). Doctoral level educational leadership programs with such an agenda at Historically Black Institutions (HBIs) are conspicuously absent. In light of the importance of social justice to aspiring and current leaders, this phenomenological study explored the extent to which the absence of a social justice agenda at a HBI influenced the perspectives and practices of doctoral students.

Authors

• Jasmine Williams, Fayetteville State University

• Richard Price, Prairie View A&M University

• La'Kesha Nicole Henson-Vaughn, Prairie View A&M University

• Derek Irvin, Prairie View A&M University

• Joshua Demond Hughes, Prairie View A&M University

• Lynne D Shipley, Smith Hale Middle School

• Xandelyn B. Wright, Houston Community College