Using Critical Narrative Methods to Improve Equity Leadership Pedagogy

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

Using narrative storytelling to explore four aspects of equity-focused school leadership (disrupting discourses that undergird educational inequity; doing and leading intellectual and emotional learning; developing cohesive and strategic equity-minded teams; and approaches to organizational and systemic) this session describes how critical narrative methods can be used to improve school administrator preparation and practice. Specifically, we focus on ways that critical narrative inquiry provides a framework for leadership students to imagine equity-focused leadership that relies on and expands the wholeness, humanity, intelligence, and integrity found in each member of a school, as well as in the community as a whole.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Leadership for Social Justice

Chair

• Sharon I. Radd, St Catherine University

Papers

• Countering the Power of the Dominant Discourse - George Theoharis, Syracuse University

• Leader as Learner, Leader as Human - Gretchen Givens Generett, Duquesne University

• Team Learning/Team Work - Mark Anthony Gooden, Columbia University

• Making Change - Sharon I. Radd, St Catherine University