1st Edition
Professional Learning for Diversity, Equity and Democracy Big Ideas for Better Schools
Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part One – Professional Learning for Diversity, Equity and Democracy in Schools – Context, Concepts and Rationale
Chapter 1: School Leadership for Better Futures: Collaborative Professional Learning About and For Diversity, Equity and Democracy
Manuela Heinz, María Jesús Rodríguez-Entrena, Gerry Mac Ruairc
Chapter 2: Big Ideas for Better Schools: A Transnational Professional Learning Project
Manuela Heinz, Gerry Mac Ruairc, María Jesús Rodríguez-Entrena
Chapter 3: Diversity, Equity and Democracy in School Leadership: Exploring Troublesome Concepts in Troubled Times
Gerry Mac Ruairc, Sara Gartland, Manuela Heinz, María Jesús Rodríguez-Entrena
Chapter 4: A Model to Enable Professional Learning for Transformative School Leadership
Mary Nihill and Gerry Mac Ruairc
Part Two – Making It Happen – Learning from Case Studies
Chapter 5: Professional learning with school leaders on diversity, equity and inclusion in Ireland: Deepening understanding and commitment through safe and honest ‘big issue’ conversations
Manuela Heinz, Cáitlin Graham, Art O Neachtain, Gerry Mac Ruairc, Sara Gartland, Claire Whyte
Chapter 6: Diversity, equity and democracy: Developing an understanding of complex social phenomena with teachers and students in Poland
Jakub Kołodziejczyk, Joanna Kotlarz, Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Joanna Trzópek-Paszkiewicz
Chapter 7: What is Democracy? Recognising diverse perspectives and building shared understandings with school leaders in Spain through a professional learning experience
María Jesús Rodríguez-Entrena, Antonio Portela Pruaño, María del Carmen Maldonado López, Francisco Alfonso Hernández López, Abraham Bernárdez-Gómez
Chapter 8: Democracy as a central value in a national curriculum: Working with school leaders and teachers to connect values with practice in Norway
Eli Ottesen, Ruth Jensen, Bård Halvorsen, Pia Vinje
Chapter 9: Education for Citizenship under Democratic Strain: Professional Learning for School Leaders and Teachers in Chile
Camila Jara Ibarra, Macarena Sánchez Bachmann, Javiera Peña Fredes
Part Three – Review of Learning and Charting Pathways
Chapter 10: Transformative Professional Learning in Action: Embracing Complexity and Critical Co-Inquiry for Diversity, Equity and Democracy
Gerry Mac Ruairc, María Jesús Rodriguez-Entrena, Manuela Heinz
Biography
Manuela Heinz is Associate Professor at the University of Galway, Ireland, and Editor of the European Journal of Teacher Education.
María Jesús Rodríguez-Entrena is Associate Professor in the Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of Murcia, Spain.
Gerry Mac Ruairc is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education at the University of Galway, Ireland.
