Centering Youth, Family, and Community in School Leadership: Case Studies for Educational Equity and Justice

This book offers a new vision for educational justice that centers on the leadership activities, organizing efforts, and counternarratives of youth, parents, families, and communities of color and other groups seeking to transform local schools and communities. It provides cases and first-person narratives to analyze and interrogate inequities, and encourages educators and administrators to reflect, learn, and re-imagine their practice and collaborate with other leaders in their communities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This timely book presents a novel vision for educational justice, focusing on the leadership activities, organizing efforts, and counternarratives of youth, parents, families, and communities of color, as well as other groups, who are striving to transform local schools and communities across the United States. By bringing together scholars, activists, and leaders, this contributed volume offers cases and first-person narratives for readers to analyze, in order to interrogate the inequalities facing communities and schools. By creating spaces for youth, family, and community leadership within schools and involving their input in decision-making processes, leaders can foster transformative, justice-oriented school change. This book serves as a critical teaching tool, prompting educators and administrators to reflect, learn, and re-imagine their practices, while also collaborating with other leaders in their communities.

This timely book presents a novel vision for educational justice, focusing on the leadership activities, organizing efforts, and counternarratives of youth, parents, families, and communities of color, as well as other groups, who are striving to transform local schools and communities across the United States. By bringing together scholars, activists, and leaders, this contributed volume offers cases and first-person narratives for readers to analyze, in order to interrogate the inequalities facing communities and schools. By creating spaces for youth, family, and community leadership within schools and involving their input in decision-making processes, leaders can foster transformative, justice-oriented school change. This book serves as a critical teaching tool, prompting educators and administrators to reflect, learn, and re-imagine their practices, while also collaborating with other leaders in their communities.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032020389