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This introductory chapter explains why education leadership for social change is an urgent priority and how principals, superintendents and other leaders who identify as anti-racist, inclusive, and activist can conceptualize their work. To frame the examples of Critical Leadership Praxis (CLP), (Pak & Ravitch, 2021) that the seven practitioner-scholars write about, Grogan and Wang describe the current context of leadership expectations and review the development of leadership theories alternative to the mainstream discourse. They outline current theories of intersectionality, and consider how storytelling and counter stories can illuminate the value of lived experiences of multiple marginality. This introduction also describes a new type of professional development collaboration between practitioners and researchers that was used by the co-editors to magnify the voices of a new generation of educational leaders with intersectional identities. The practitioner-scholars were encouraged to use an intersectional analysis of their lived experiences to construct their identities (Moorosi, 2014), and to write Who I Am and Values in Action stories (Simmons, 2019) to illustrate their leadership.
ISBN
9781032557441
Publication Date
7-2-2024
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York, NY
Disciplines
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Leadership
Recommended Citation
Grogan, M., & Wang, A. H. (2024). Introduction: Leading social change from the lived experience of intersectionality. In A. H. Wang & M. Grogan (Eds.), Intersectionality and leading social change in education: Professional learning to transform self, others, and the field. Routledge.
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Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Educational Leadership Commons
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In Aubrey H. Wang and Margaret Grogan (Eds.), Intersectionality and Leading Social Change in Education: Professional Learning to Transform Self, Others, and the Field.