Overview
- Advances the literature on decolonizing educational leadership that offers both a theoretical framework as well as practical applications in schools
- Responds to current issues that educational leaders are facing
- Offers new, more inclusive ways of thinking about educational leadership
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This book offers new ways of engagement for leaders seeking to connect theory to practice in decolonizing education. In the current climate where xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiments, and other forms of exclusion make up much of the discourse, educational leaders need to seek ways to foreground other forms of knowledge and transfer them into their daily leadership practices. Lopez contributes to other critical leadership approaches while foregrounding a decolonizing approach that unsettles the coloniality manifested in education and school practices. Chapters provide school leaders with examples of ways they can challenge coloniality, white supremacy, and other forms of oppression in schooling that negatively impact some students and their educational outcomes.
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Reviews
“Grounded in historical context, Lopez draws on her experience as a practitioner and scholar to methodologically examine ‘the continued tensions in education and schooling.’ Decolonizing education in these unprecedented times amid a pandemic and racial unrest is a call to action in schools and society.”—Gaëtane Jean-Marie, Dean and Professor of Educational Leadership, Rowan University, USA
“Lopez effectively and brilliantly presents the case for critical and liberating approaches to educational leadership. The work is massively unique in its temporality in that it focuses on an area that has somehow mostly avoided the urgent need to examine its structures and outcomes. Indeed, the contents of this book are forwardly recasting educational leadership as a pragmatically constructed, cognitively dynamic, and programmatically inclusive platform for polycentric teaching, learning, and leadership. It will greatly benefit educational leadership scholars, students, and professionals.”
—Ali A. Abdi, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, The University of British Columbia, Canada“Amidst the current tensions of education, this book draws on a rich body of literature on social justice and decolonization interwoven with unique personal and academic experience. This cutting-edge resource is a must-read for twenty-first century educational leaders and policy makers who genuinely seek to make a difference through culturally responsive and decolonized educational leadership and policy as it studiously exposes one of the most somber global problems facing diversified societies.”
—Khalid Arar, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, Texas State University, USA, and Associate Editor, International Journal of Leadership in Education
“Lopez effectively and brilliantly presents the case for critical and liberating approaches to educational leadership. The work is massively unique in its temporality in that it focuses on an area that has somehow mostly avoided the urgent need to examine its structures and outcomes. Indeed, the contents of this book are forwardly recasting educational leadership as a pragmatically constructed, cognitively dynamic, and programmatically inclusive platform for polycentric teaching, learning, and leadership. It will greatly benefit educational leadership scholars, students, and professionals.”
—Ali A. Abdi, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, The University of British Columbia, Canada“Amidst the current tensions of education, this book draws on a rich body of literature on social justice and decolonization interwoven with unique personal and academic experience. This cutting-edge resource is a must-read for twenty-first century educational leaders and policy makers who genuinely seek to make a difference through culturally responsive and decolonized educational leadership and policy as it studiously exposes one of the most somber global problems facing diversified societies.”
—Khalid Arar, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, Texas State University, USA, and Associate Editor, International Journal of Leadership in Education
"A ‘must read’ for educational leadership, this book advances the theoretical foundations and proactive approaches for decolonizing education through clarity in one’s positionality, responsibilities, and approaches in achieving a more cognitively just education for all students."
—Marie Battiste, Professor Emerita of Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ann E. Lopez is Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Director of the Center for Leadership and Diversity, and Provostial Advisor on Access Programs at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Leadership in Diverse Contexts: From Theory to Action (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonizing Educational Leadership
Book Subtitle: Exploring Alternative Approaches to Leading Schools
Authors: Ann E. Lopez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62380-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62379-1Published: 05 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62380-7Published: 04 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 96
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Education, general, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Sociology of Education