Mapping the Complexities of Effective Leadership for Social Justice Praxis

• In Event: Roundtable Session 44
  In Roundtable Session: An International Perspective on Social Justice

Abstract

This empirical research is about strengths-based leadership practices that seek to explore leadership for social justice and equity in Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s culturally and linguistically diverse educational and social landscape. Much like the diversity of the United States (US) and in similar countries where leaders demonstrate culturally responsive leadership in their quest to educate diverse democracies. A qualitative, comparative case study, combined with the theoretical framework of applied critical leadership guided the research methods. A distinct phenomenon was leader’s axiological philosophy (values, beliefs and morals) underpinning their leadership that was culturally responsive to the diversity in their educational contexts. These findings suggest the need for research and scholarship yet to be done in this largely unexplored educational leadership academic space.

Author

• Sharona Jayavant, University of Auckland