Decoloniality and School Leadership: Leading Change in a Different Way

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 1:15 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Theories, Pedagogies, and Praxes (Table 21)

Abstract

Current trends globally have seen challenges to critical educational policies and effects on education and schooling. School leaders are in the midst of this onslaught. This paper explores how intentional focus on grounding school leaders’ work on decolonial theorizing can support their efforts and resistance to anti-woke, anti-CRT, and current towards market driven education. Theorization and conceptualizations do not simply describe alternative perspectives on work, they actively structure our understandings of our experiences with work by providing frames of references, norms, values, and attitudes toward work that translate into practices. As the manifestations of coloniality continue to inform educational policies and practices school leaders must become theorists as well as practitioners to lead change in their schools

Author

• Ann E. Lopez, University of Toronto - OISE