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Relational Teaching to Transform: Teaching in Educational Leadership Preparation Programs

Mon, April 8, 4:10 to 5:40pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 800 Level, Hall F

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Educational leadership preparation programs serve as spaces to encourage the development of students’ capacity to address issues of oppression and create new power relations for social justice. Faculty play a role in preparation programs to enact teaching that uncover to power dynamics of oppression for social emancipation. The purpose of this critical qualitative study was to understand how faculty in doctoral educational leadership preparation programs teach to encourage students’ capacity development to engage in transformative leadership. There were four major findings: The participants (1) integrated critical frameworks into the curriculum and pedagogical approaches, (2) established spaces in and outside of the formal classroom, (3) centered student-faculty relationships for support and collaboration, and (4) evoked students’ transformative activism through academic practice.

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