1st Edition

Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice A Critical Approach in Urban Schools

By David E. DeMatthews Copyright 2018
    210 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    210 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book advocates for informed leaders who are aware of the larger historical, political-economic, sociological, and philosophical issues that surround the schools and communities they serve. Extending beyond mainstream conceptions of instructional leadership and broad social justice paradigms, Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice offers a multidisciplinary framework that helps leaders better serve the needs of their students, teachers, and communities. Exploring issues of urban school reform as it relates to the principal, as well as priorities that are relevant to the process of school improvement and the promotion of social justice, this book provides a critical, equity-oriented set of best practices grounded in research and empirical cases. This is a must-have resource for building consciousness, offering hope, and engaging in dialogical and collaborative leadership practices to radically transform schools and communities.

     Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Chapter 1: Introduction

    Part I: Exploring Urban Communities, Schools, and Reform

    Chapter 2: Neighborhoods of (In)Opportunity

    Chapter 3: Racial Segregation and Urban Schools

    Chapter 4: A History of Urban School Reform

    Chapter 5: Schools as Social Institutions

    Part II: Toward a Critical and Community Engaged Leadership

    Chapter 6: The Science of Educational Administration

    Chapter 7: Alternative Ways of Knowing and Leading

    Chapter 8: Leading for Social Justice

    Chapter 9: Critical Cases of Leadership in Low-Opportunity Communities

    Conclusion: New Knowledge Requires New Commitments

    Biography

    David E. DeMatthews is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

    "The press to locate modifiable out-of-school factors that influence the education of underserved students continues to grow. This book provides an insightful, intellectual guide that describes the scholarship of major thought leaders and researchers working in this problem space."
    —William F. Tate, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor, Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

    "DeMatthews’ masterful critique of the principalship in historical perspective weaves between the macro and micro to give much-needed attention to the way that the profession, in Freire’s words, is less about liberation than it is about domesticating subjectivities. Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice cogently maintains that we cannot have principals that either lack awareness or fail to be critically reflective of the inequalities faced by the children and communities that they serve. Kudos to a job well done!"
    —Angela Valenzuela, Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Texas at Austin, USA