A Time for Harvest: Centering Black Women’s Legacy of Resistance in the (Re)Building of Schools

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: Racialized and Gendered Educational Experiences: Resisting Leadership Norms

Abstract

Multiple pandemics continue to bring us face-to-face with the impact of the horrific past, and present, history of public education in the United States (Ladson-Billings, 2021). Specifically, the contributions of Black women scholars and practitioners are not included enough in the curriculum, or baseline assessment, of preservice educational leaders (Theoharis, 2007; 2008; Murtadha,1999). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to share the results of a qualitative research study that centered the experiences of Black women school leaders and positioned them as experts in the field. The results of this study add to conversations about diversity, and critical leadership, as we attempt to (re)shape the field of educational leadership, and prepare new leaders for our current context.

Author

• Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, University of Toronto