66.066 - Justice in Educational Leadership: The Normality of Praxis Exercised by Global Leaders of African Heritage

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The vast majority of empirical leadership research and scholarship assumes a normative, mono-cultural, Eurocentric perspective that minimizes the contribution of non-Western leadership paradigms and perspectives of educational leadership. The series of papers presented in this session problematize the majority hegemonic notion and articulation of leadership and proffer models of educational leadership as exercised by Global Leaders of African Heritage.

Through the use of scholarship, research and professional practice from the UK, USA, and Caribbean the session explores the nature of color conscious paradigms of educational leadership in support of social justice. The session reveals both similarities and differences in the ways that racial identity, cultural values and behaviors inform and expand our understanding of leadership theory and praxis

Sub Unit

• SIG-Leadership for Social Justice

Chair

• Judy A. Alston, Ashland University

Papers

• Leadership and Cultural Identity - Victoria Showunmi, UCL Institute of Education,London

• Ubuntu: System Leadership in Practice - Rosemary M. Campbell-Stephens, Institute of Education - London

• Male Leaders of African Caribbean Heritage: Leading With Justice and Care to Enhance Student Achievement - Dennis G Francis, University College London

• School-to-Leadership Pipeline and the Representation of Male African Caribbean Leaders in London Secondary Schools - Phillip A Smith, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Negotiating the Turn: School Reform in an Urban Rural High School in the New South - Daniella Ann Cook, University of South Carolina - Columbia; Kelvin Wymbs, Richland One School District

Discussant

• Judy A. Alston, Ashland University