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"All of life is a series of transformations, as individuals navigate and negotiate themselves to higher levels of consciousness. Malcolm X's life was no different as he transitioned from Malcolm Little, to Detroit Red, to Malcolm X, to El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz." Najee E. Muhammad ponders The Transformational Leadership of Malcolm X Communications
between administrators and teachers can be difficult enough, but how more
complicated things can become when involving a new female teacher and
a male administrator. Jim Garrison and Elaine
O'Quinn "consider a
vignette of a dialogue across gender differences we once witnessed involving
a new female teacher and a male administrator" in The
Social Construction of Emotional Meaning across Gender Differences: African-centered pedagogy and curriculum are designed to teach children of African descent in a manner that takes their history, culture, identity, and politics into account for the ultimate purpose of solving their problems. Kamautu Ashanti discusses the perspectives of leading African-centered thinkers in order to clarify some of the possible advantages that their intellectual work might provide educational leaders in Leaders in African-Centered Education. Cultural
politics fill student interactions, but school leaders often misunderstand
the sociological bases for such conflicts among student groups.
Anaya McMurray reveals some of the social mechanisms at
play between black and white students at City University in Everyday Anomalies: Thinking that there should be a very limited role for the federal government in public education, the Reagan administration attempted to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, but the present Bush administration seems to be trying a different tack. Kathleen Sullivan Brown wonders if this new approach might not be modeled after the strong administrative approach of European and Asian countries. Is the U.S. Department of Education about to become the U.S. Ministry of Education? In recent years, teachers and administrators have found themselves facing an onslaught of intrusions from corporations. How should we respond? High school principal Thomas Goodney explores some of the ethical problems that the growing influence of corporations on schools has created in Commercialism in Schools: A Moral Imperative for School Leaders. "When
the culture of the school presents a barrier to resolving its many problems,
we must become proactive transformational leaders," says former principal
and present assistant professor C. P. Gause.
Read his commentary on a transformational leadership that is creative,
courageous, and visionary in Transforming
Leaders, Creating Communities: |
Patti Lather has ecome one of the most interesting and important voices in qualitative research methodolgy. Lather's work has forced us to focus on the ethical relationships between scholarship and human communities in a manner that advances equity and democracy. Recently she sat with Miami University's Rosalind Gallaspie and Lisa Weems for a wide-ranging conversation that tries to identify some of the important themes found in the nexus of leadership, culture, and schooling. "Listen in" to A Conversation with Patti Lather. |
Ron Scapp calls Henry Giroux's recent book, The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond a Culture of Fear "a masterful critique of the leadership of our nation" which points out that "leadership of all types but especially educational leadership . . . gets understood as 'business.' [which] . . . "ignores and distorts the real and vital differences between 'doing business' and the 'business,' as it were, of educating a critically minded citizenry." According to P. Kamara Sekou Collins, in their new book, Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations: Re-Imagining Schools Michelle Fine and Lois Weis "present a body of counter-hegemonic, counter-nihilistic, essays that share and celebrate some of the delights located in the practices of several dedicated, progressive-minded educational communities determined to create more critically reflective citizens via one of America's few remaining "public" spaces--the public school." |
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