Ethnic Educational Leaders as Beacons of Culturally Responsive Leadership: Lessons for Mainstream School Leaders

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Abstract

This research explores the leadership perspectives of eight K-12 African centered school leaders and a public-facing political and educational project grounded in the politics of Pan Africanism. The research examines how African centered leaders through a systematic examination called an “Organizational Inquiry” operationalize African history and conceptions of black “ways of being” into a unique, healthy, socialization process for children. The researcher was interested in exploring how hidden ideologies and politics of white supremacy interject themselves into formal organizations and how leaders of schools with a political and ideological goal disrupt these interjections. This project wanted to answer how and where organizational leaders of alternative models of schooling, interject their own political and ideological doctrines into their systems.

Authors

• Bodunrin O Banwo, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Rashad Williams, University of Minnesota