Reflexive Considerations for Developing and Sustaining an Antiracist Educational Leadership Preparation Program

• In Event: Considering Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Leadership Preparation and Placement

Abstract

The field of educational leadership preparation continues to find itself woefully overdue in the development and sustaining of leadership preparation programs with the will and capacity to interconnect critically-oriented theory, research, and practice together in a way that leads to the development of transformative, social justice-oriented, and anti-racist school leaders. With this recognition, the purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we examine a number of theoretical constructs that offer key insights into the critical frameworks necessary to equip leaders for diverse school communities. Second, we synthesize the findings from our research on leadership preparation programs in an effort to provide the field of leadership preparation with normative suggestions for the development of leaders our communities deserve.

Authors

• Sarah Diem, University of Missouri

• Bradley W. Carpenter, University of Louisville