Bridge leadership : connecting educational leadership and social justice to improve schools

• Other Authors: Tooms, Autumn K. (Editor), Boske, Christa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP-Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010.
• Series: Educational leadership for social justice.
• Subjects: Educational leadership.; School management and organization.; Social justice.; Education > Aims & Objectives.; Moral and social purpose of education.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806617838
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-351-2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)

This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration. Editors Tooms and Boske have amassed a collective voice of leaders in the field of Educational Administration who have broken barriers and expanded the field through thei...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Margaret Grogan
• Series editor preface / Jeffrey S. Brooks
• Introduction: Social justice and doing being ordinary / Christa Boske and Autumn K. Tooms
• Part I. Looking inward
• Chapter 1. Surviving while dismantling one's professional culture: The honor/struggle for the feminist academic / Catherine Marshall. Scenic Overlook: Chapters 1 and 2
• Chapter 2. A time to grow: Workplace mobbing and the making of a tempered radical / Christa Boske. Scenic Overlook: Chapters 2 and 3
• Chapter 3. What's a nice dyke like you embracing this postmodern crap? / Catherine A. Lugg. Scenic Overlook: Chapters 3 and 4
• Chapter 4. Fire in the belly: Igniting a social justice discourse in learning environments of leadership preparation / Gaetane Jean-Marie
• Part II. The leadership bridge
• Chapter 5. Leading justly in a complex world / Carolyn M. Shields
• Part III. Looking outward
• Chapter 6. The miseducation of a professor of educational administration: Learning and unlearning culturally (ir)relevant leadership / Jeffrey S. Brooks. Scenic Overlook: Chapters 5 and 6
• Chapter 7. Individual transformation for global impact: Increasing global citizenship through study abroad / Colleen L. Larson and Teboho Moja. Scenic Overlook: Chapters 6 and 7
• Chapter 8. Unlocking the door to international collaboration: The power of interpersonal relationships and learning communities / Bruce Barnett and Gary O'Mahony. Scenic Overlook: Chapters 7 and 8
• Chapter 9. Personal reflections on an organizational transformation: Ucea's re-emerging role in a world of interdependent nations / Stephen Jacobson
• Part IV. The reflecting pool
• Chapter 10. The reflecting pool / Autumn K. Tooms and Christa Boske
• Chapter 11. Epilogue / Ira Bogotch and Dilys Schoorman.