Taking Responsibility for Racial Justice in Educational Leadership Preparation: Antiracist Implications in Doctoral Student Work

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Educational leadership programs struggle to center racial justice in their efforts to develop equitable researchers and practitioners. This symposium will demonstrate how taking responsibility for this area of paucity develops explicitly anti-racist doctoral student research that challenges, interrupts, and even transforms educational leader practice. Emerging from a course on racial justice in education, five doctoral students will present their research on matters of racial and ethnic injustice in education both domestically and abroad. Given their roles as school and community leaders, their explicitly anti-racist works interrogated the systems they are responsible for. In effect, this symposium shows how centering racial justice in educational leadership preparation develops the kind of research and praxis necessary to foster justice in schools and communities.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Division A - Section 1: Leadership

Chair

• Erica B. Edwards, Wayne State University

Papers

• The Impact of Colorism on Black Girls and Their Academic Success - DeJanae Douglas, Wayne State University

• The Role of Race and Class in Canadian Parental School Choice - Rebecca Reaume, Wayne State University

• The Impact of Tribalism and Colonialism on Education in Uganda - Peter Kaboggoza, Wayne State University

• A Critical Examination of School Leaders' Perceptions of Race and Disability - Julien Frazier, Wayne State University

• Abandonment in the Classroom: Internalized Racism and the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Ramarra Garrett, Wayne State University

Discussant

• Rema Reynolds, Eastern Michigan University