Leadership for Social Justice

Expanded and revised, this reader on key issues in social justice and school leadership is filled with current information and research, real-life scenarios and controversies, and student activities. The accessible and practical text, written by leading authorities in the field, challenges leaders, educators, and researchers to be effective advocates for social justice.

Demonstrating how current realities in educational leadership training and in school practices can be refined to better meet students’ needs, the book provides an array of ways to understand the effects of exclusionary practices as well as useful exercises and materials for those who will lead students and staffs to create equitable practices. Recognizing that readers learn through multiple intelligences, Leadership for Social Justice integrates poetry, editorial cartoons, evocative writing, and hands-on tools with research, theory, and recommendations for practice.

New Features in the Second Edition Include:

• A new chapter on the impact of poverty on educational achievement not only documents the issue but also shares ways educators can responsively address it.
• A new chapter focusing on special education discusses how educational leaders can respond to the needs of exceptional children.
• An expanded discussion of next steps for school leaders in training offers readers resources and information for continuing to grow as leaders in the future.

Expanded and revised, this reader on key issues in social justice and school leadership is written by leading authorities in leadership and social justice. The accessible and practical text is filled with current information from the field, real-life scenarios and controversies, and student activities — all while challenging leaders, educators and researchers to be effective advocates for social justice. Demonstrating how the current realities in educational leadership training and in school practices can be refined or reconstructed to better meet students’ needs, the book provides an array of ways of understanding the effects of exclusionary practices as well as useful exercises and materials for those who will lead students and staffs to create equitable practices.

Recognizing that readers learn through multiple intelligences, Leadership for Social Justice intersperses poetry, quotes, editorial cartoons, evocative writing, and hands-on tools with research, theory, and recommendations for practice. The book is divided into 3 distinct parts: Re-defining Leadership for Social Justice, Preparing Social Justice Leaders, and Next Steps.

The revised edition of Leadership for Social Justice is extensively updated and includes two new chapters: one focusing on special education students and one focusing on children in poverty. The new second edition also includes information on possible next steps for school leaders currently in training.

Catherine Marshall is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Once a teacher in Rhode Island, her studies include a doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published extensively about the politics of education, qualitative methodology, and women's access to careers as well as about the socialization, language, and values in educational leadership. She is the author of Reframing Educational Politics for Social Justice (Allyn & Bacon, 2004) as well as other books and numerous articles on the administrative career.

Maricela Oliva is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. With a doctorate in Educational Administration from The University of Texas at Austin, Oliva is the author of a number of journal articles, book chapters, and reports regarding curricular multiculturalism and social justice for educational leaders.