Jeffrey S. Brooks

Noelle Witherspoon Arnold

Racism and ignorance persist on college campuses, mirroring society. This book covers discussions on racism in higher education, which span formal policies like Affirmative Action and informal settings. The authors argue that,despite some diversity efforts, a lack of dialogue and action suggests tolerance of racism.

Problems and Possibilities for Fighting Ignorance, Bigotry and Isolation

Confronting Racism in Higher Education

Anthony H. Normore

Foundations of Educational Leadership provides a fresh and research-based perspective on educational leadership, exploring 10 specific aspects of ‘glocalization’ in which educational leaders must be literate in order to establish and sustain relevant and useful educational experiences for students in their schools. In addition to covering traditional concepts such as culture, instructional leadership, professional ethics, and politics, well-known authors Brooks and Normore also introduce several conventionally neglected, cutting edge concepts like spirituality, holistic health, and information leadership. This important book emphasizes how a framework of learning, literacy, leadership, and reflection is critical to the preparation and practice of educational leaders. Foundations of Educational Leadership ensures aspiring and practicing leaders will be prepared to influence processes and outcomes for creating a more just and equitable environment for all students. Key Features: Each chapter focuses on what leaders need to learn, the concepts with which they need to be literate, how to lead in the area, and aspects on which they should reflect. Discussion sections at the end of each chapter include prompts, questions, and activities suited for engaging ideas, alone, or with classmates. An eResource features additional resources and video content.

Developing Excellent and Equitable Schools

Foundations of Educational Leadership

Ira Bogotch

Khalid Arar

This edited volume investigates how the role of leadership in education in various countries from around the world have been designed and implemented through educational policies and national cultures to meet the needs of new, displaced, and mobile groups of migrants and refugees.

Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World

Education, Immigration and Migration

Kathleen M. Brown

Catherine A. Lugg

George Theoharis

Joanne M. Marshall

Leslie Hazle Bussey

Bonnie Fusarelli

Latish C. Reed

Mark A. Gooden

Challenges of work-life balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many of the not-work aspects of their lives. Imagine a tweedy middle-aged white man, coming home from the university to greet his wife and children and eat the dinner she’s prepared for him, and then disappearing into his study for the rest of the evening with his pipe to write and think great thoughts. If that professor ever existed, he is now emeritus. Juggling Flaming Chainsaws is the first book in a new series with Information Age Publishing on these challenges of managing academic work and not-work. It uses the methodology of autoethnography to introduce the work-life issues faced by scholars in educational leadership. While the experiences of scholars in this volume are echoed across other fields in higher education, educational leadership is unique because of its emphasis on preparing people for leadership roles within higher education and for preK-12 schools. Authors include people at different places on their career and life course trajectory, people who are partnered and single, gay and straight, with children and without, caring for elders, and managing illness. They hail from different geographic areas of the nation, different ethnic backgrounds, and different types of institutions. What all have in common is commitment to engaging with this topic, to reflecting deeply upon their own experience, and to sharing that experience with the rest of us.

Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family

Juggling Flaming Chain Saws

Recounts how reform affected the work and personal lives of a group of high school teachers, describing the effects these reforms had on the pace of the day, changes in teacher duties, and maintenance of policies and procedures.

Teaching in the Space Between Reality and Utopia

The Dark Side of School Reform

This important volume explores how racism operates in schools and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling. A diverse set of contributors analyze particular contexts of white privilege, providing key research findings, connections to policy, and exemplars of schools and universities that are overcoming these challenges. Whiteucation provides a multi-level and holistic perspective on how inequitable power dynamics and prejudice exist in schools, ultimately encouraging reflection, dialogue, and inquiry in spaces where white privilege needs to be questioned, interrogated, and dismantled.

Privilege, Power, and Prejudice in School and Society

Whiteucation

Terri N. Watson

Floyd D. Beachum

In this book we considered new territory for educational leadership by looking to music for lessons and inspiration that may inform the next generation of schools leaders. Each chapter focuses on an artist or group whose work serves to refine, extend, and challenge our thinking in regards to educational leadership. You will find a vast array of musical forms of expression analyzed and described by an equally diverse collection of educational leadership scholars and practitioners. There may be some who question the academic appropriateness or relevance of a text such as this one. Our response is that part of our ongoing mission should be to break ourselves out of academic silos and forge meaningful connections between seemingly disparate disciplines. Furthermore, educational leadership stands to gain more by drawing from the arts and specifically musical influences. Finally, music is an obvious part of most of our lives; why not explore the ways in which it impacts us on an academic level and not just a personal level? In sum, we ask that as you read the chapters of this book, you reflect on your own musical tastes and favorite artists.

Lessons for Tomorrow’s School Leaders

Educational Leadership and Music

To help American education leaders create more just and equitable schools, an impressive group of scholars present profiles of a wide range of outstanding historical and contemporary leaders from across the globe, including Wangari Mathaai, John Tippeconic III, Fannie Lou Hamer, Saul Alinsky, Antonia Pantoja, Jimmy Carter, and Golda Meir. Contributors include Fenwick W. English, Margaret Grogan, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Gaëtane Jean-Marie, Peter McLaren, Sonia Nieto, Izhar Oplatka, Allan Walker, and Michelle D. Young. “This book introduces many new ways to think about leadership in education.” —From the Foreword by William Ayers, education activist “A rare and wonderful book about visionary, incredible, inspirational, exemplary, and diverse leaders.” —Bill Mulford, emeritus professor, University of Tasmania “An impressive resource for anyone committed to developing leaders or preparing to take on the mantle of leadership themselves.” —Sonya Douglass Horsford, Teachers College, Columbia University “For those of us who have suffered through the staid, unimaginative prose of most educational leadership texts, this book is a godsend!” —Lisa D. Delpit, Southern University School of Education

Lessons for Creating Just and Equitable Schools

Leading Against the Grain

This volume explores the dark side of leadership – the unethical, unlawful, and unconscionable practice in which some leaders engage. The book includes contributions from scholars from the worlds of education, business, nursing, and other relational-oriented fields of inquiry and practice.

Jeffrey S. Brooks

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