Transformative Learning and Leading: Exploring Practice Architectures in the Development of Social Justice–Driven Practitioner Scholars

• In Event: 42.083 - Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: 42.083-20 - Social Justice Leadership Across Contexts: Frameworks, Tensions, and Perspectives

Abstract

Using practice theory as a conceptual framework, this study reports findings from an investigation of the practice of educational leadership in three collaborative research projects in the UH Manoa’s CPED Ed.D. program. This study demonstrates how doctoral students and clients re-imagined Group Consultancy Projects (GCP) as a process of transformative learning and leading. We employ the concept of ‘practice architectures’ (Kemmis, Wilkinson, Edwards-Groves, Hardy, Grootenboer, and Bristol, 2014) to investigate how the ecological arrangements composing the practice of leadership provoke, sustain, and nurture transformation in both student and community partner leadership. We argue that that GCP design facilitates ecological spaces of interrelated learning communities where doctoral students and clients collaborate organically in transformative learning that enhances social justice leadership practice.

Authors

• Sarah Jane Twomey, University of Hawaii

• Veselina Lambrev, University of South Florida

• Sylvia Hussey

• Camille Hampton, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Jerelyn Watanabe, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Ed Noh, Lanikai School

• Kari Leong, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Gari-Vic Baxa, University of Hawaii - Manoa