Urban School Leadership and Ecologies of Racism

• In Event: 69.013 - Confronting Racism in Schools: Then and Now

Abstract

This article reports results from a single-school case study that looked at the ways that racism influences (and is influenced by) racism. The study examined the ways that racism is manifest at different levels of the system: individual, dyadic, sub-cultural, institutional and societal. In doing so, the authors sought to understand how racism influences leadership practice within and across each of these levels, meaning that as a whole they were considered as an ecological model. Findings suggested that pretext, context and post-text are important, and that individual educators’ leadership is influenced by ever-changing racial dynamics in their school.

Authors

• Jeffrey S. Brooks, RMIT University

• Terri Nicol Watson, City College of New York - CUNY