An Instructional/Professional Leadership Doctoral Case Study: Integrating Culturally Responsive and Social Justice Pedagogy in Urban Education

• In Event: Leadership, Pedagogy, and Development for Urban and Culturally Responsive Schooling

Abstract

This project examines integrating culturally responsive and social justice themes in an online education doctoral program focusing on Instructional / Professional Leadership. This study was conducted over a 3 year period in a 51 hour EdD using interviews, open-ended surveys, and participant narratives. Findings suggest specific issues and strategies for doctoral program development enhanced through a culturally responsive and social justice framework, including linking this pedagogy with urban education issues found in kindergarten through twelfth grade school settings, teacher education, and the urban community. Findings also suggest supporting students and faculty in addressing issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and economic status, and providing the needed knowledge, skills, and dispostions needed for research, teaching and service in education.

Authors

• Cameron S. White, University of Houston

• Laveria Hutchison, University of Houston

• Marwa Elshafie, University of Houston