Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools
|
Buy Now
Justice in Search of Leaders - A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership (Paperback, New edition)
Loot Price: R1,273
Discovery Miles 12 730
|
|
Justice in Search of Leaders - A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Counterpoints, 516
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School
Leadership is a guide for educators who are committed to
equity-driven teaching, leading, and policy-making, and would like
to operationalize socially just school practices for all children.
Moving beyond a heroes and holidays approach to addressing racism,
bias, injustice, and a cluster of isms, it provides a deeper
understanding of the causes of structural inequities in schools,
and suggests approaches for deconstructing them. The book includes
a frank discussion of race, racism, social dominance, and implicit
bias, and encourages both objective and subjective analyses of how
they infect school practice. America's ambivalent response to race,
racial identity development, the nature of prejudice, and how
humans form values and develop belief systems is explored in some
depth. There is also a critique of Whiteness as a socio-political
concept as it relates to power and privilege, and as a demographic
reality as it relates to institutional discrimination in schools.
The book is not a critique of white people, and it is important
that readers make that distinction. This leads to a discussion of
the tricky and challenging process of changing beliefs, values, and
attitudes as they relate to school leadership and teaching, and how
all of this is connected to the power dynamics in schools. Justice
in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School
Leadership encourages educators to acknowledge that we all have
racial identities and biases that inform professional practice, and
to reflect on the significance of this. It means thinking deeply
about socially abhorrent subjects which make us uncomfortable and
cause us to retreat to the safety of our comfort zones. This is
necessary because for most under-served students, there is no
retreat and no safety; there are only discomfort zones.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.