Intersectionality and Leading Social Change in Education: Professional Learning to Transform Self, Others, and the Field

The book explores a social change and transformational approach to leadership, highlighting stories of courageous educational leaders with intersectional identities who interrogate and reflect on how their intersectionality shaped their leadership. It helps aspiring and current leaders explore how lived experiences and deeply held values can shape and inform their own leadership, and concludes with a readers guide to facilitate the discourse of marginalized experiences in educational leadership.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 140 pages
Publication date: 02 July 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into a transformative and social approach to leadership, recognizing the changing demographics of students and the persistent challenges and tensions surrounding race and equity. It is essential for educators to embrace innovative and radical leadership strategies to effectively address these issues. The book features inspiring stories of educational leaders with intersectional identities who reflect on how their diverse backgrounds have shaped their leadership. Through these narratives, readers gain insights into how their own lived experiences and values can influence and inform their leadership practices. Each chapter concludes with a reader's guide, encouraging reflection on the unique journeys of the leaders and promoting discussions of marginalized experiences in educational leadership. This approach to professional learning equips aspiring principals, superintendents, and administrators with the skills to navigate multiple marginalized spaces and redefine notions of power and success. It contributes to the field by offering compelling counter narratives that need to be heard.

Weight: 244g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032547268