Working (with/out) the system : educational leadership, micropolitics, and social justice

This edited collection of chapters from invited scholars, explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions. More specifically, it examines the ways in which social justice workers navigate, or can navigate, (micro) political systems in their quest to promote social jus...

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Other Authors Ryan, James, 1952 October 18- (Editor), Armstrong, Denise E. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2016]
SeriesIssues in the research, theory, policy, and practice of urban education ; 7.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806610754
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-226-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xxi, 269 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editors' preface / Brenda J. McMahon and Denise E. Armstrong
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : Micropolitical leadership for social justice: Working (with/out) the system / James Ryan and Denise E. Armstrong
  • Chapter 1. A micropolitics for social justice activism / James Ryan and Katie Higginbottom
  • Chapter 2. Principals mediating neoliberal policies: Micropolitics, discourse, and social justice / Sergio Saldivia and Gary Anderson
  • Chapter 3. The ethics of (micro) political tactics and doing social justice work / Stephanie Tuters and Denise Armstrong
  • Chapter 4. Public school principals' reasoning and reflection-in-action / William Greenfield Jr. and Joseph Hunter
  • Chapter 5. Doing social justice leadership: Connecting the macro and micro contexts of schooling / Pamela Angelle, Michele Morrison, and Howard Stevenson
  • Chapter 6. Fear factors and micropolitics: The struggles and costs of social justice leadership / Shemina Sheikh
  • Chapter 7. Authentic leadership in the context of social justice and organizational politics / Anthony Normore, Nancy Erbe and Swaranjit Singh
  • Chapter 8. Insider-outsider empowered deliberative action: Toward a model of youth empowerment and educational justice / Celina Su
  • Chapter 9. The micropolitics of management in universities: Challenges and opportunities / Lisa Ehrich, Megan Kimber, and John Ehrich
  • Chapter 10. (re-)working the system from within through faculty governance / Dilys Schoorman
  • Chapter 11. Navigating the rapids: Leading for social justice in higher education / Carolyn Shields
  • Chapter 12. The politics of cage-busting leadership / Joseph Flessa
  • About the authors.