“If You're Leading and Nobody's Following, You Just a Man Taking a Walk”: Leading for Racial Justice in Education (Poster 41)

• In Event: Thursday Poster Session 9:00 am
  In Poster Session: Examining Varied Educational Contexts and Communities From Multiple Perspectives

Abstract

The paper highlights findings from a case study about leaders from a grassroots network in the Midwest that organized around disrupting the school prison nexus. The primary research question was: How do leaders in an activist group for racial justice in schools experience their leadership roles? Because the U.S. educational system was constructed to be inequitable (DuBois, 2010; Ladson Billings, 2019), imagining justice in educational spaces requires leaders willing to be disruptive to the status quo. This study seeks to learn from community leaders (educators and non-educators) invested in racially just schooling to understand their leadership frameworks.

Author

• Joy Howard, Appalachian State University