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Learning to lead socially just schools: an exploration of candidate readiness for equity-focused principal preparation in the United States.
- Source :
- Professional Development in Education; Jan2021, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p36-49, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In spite of concerted improvement efforts to improve curricula, many university-based principal preparation programmes in the United States do not explicitly attend to issues of equity or social justice in a thorough way. While curricular efforts are important, they are not enough on their own; a working theory in the field of educational leadership is that an equity-mindset is also needed and that social justice-oriented principal preparation programs should select individuals who already 'have a propensity, at a minimum, to critically question the inequities found in schools' for admission into programs. Generally speaking, however, there is a dearth of literature on both candidate selection for preparation programs and equity beliefs of current and pre-service school leaders. In this paper, we explore how potential candidates for a principal preparation program in an urban school district view equity and the vexing question of how to prepare socially just leaders Figure 1–8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19415257
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Professional Development in Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147712213
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2020.1814386