Reconciling Critical Consciousness and Spirituality in Educational Leadership.

This paper focuses on spirituality and critical consciousness as two guiding forces for meaningful leadership. It further looks for the reconciliation of spirituality and criticality so as to deconstruct deep-seated leadership myths. Reconciling spirituality with critical perspective inspires individuals to have a critical and holistic understanding of engaged spirituality and leadership theorizing critical spirituality as an ontological and epistemic praxis to connect the inner world to the outer social reality and materiality. Adherence to spirituality through critical engagement helps to create a meaningful educational leadership space, fostering a sense of optimism and utopian envisioning by challenging the taken-for-granted assumptions and embracing diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]