Social Justice Focus in Doctoral Programs

• In Event: Reimagining Social Justice in Doctoral Programs

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 understanding and perspectives of doctoral students in an educational leadership programs with an explicit focus on social justice and an implicit focus on social justice

Authors

• Jasmine D. Williams, San Francisco State University

• Richard Price, Prairie View A&M University

• Derek Irvin, Prairie View A&M University

• Lindsay C. Dixon, Prairie View A&M University

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

• Joshua Demond Hughes, Prairie View A&M University

• Lynne D Shipley, Smith Hale Middle School

• Katanya Foust, Fayetteville State University

• Kishia C James, Fayetteville State University

• Tyson Monique Johnson, Fayetteville State University