Shaping Social Justice Leadership Insights of Women Educators Worldwide [Paperback]

This book breaks new ground in studies on education and social justice by bringing together an unprecedented conceptual richness and innovation combined with real-life narrations on the practice of leadership by leading women drawn from across continents and countries. The fact that these stories of leadership are drawn from a deliberate cross-national sample of education leaders breaks the ethnocentrism so evident in the major books and journal articles on leaders, leadership and social justice emanating from the West.?But these are not mere stories; each narrative is deeply grounded within theory and data that emerge naturally from the life-experiences of those who lead in difficult contexts and, quite often, against the grain of an androcentrism afflicting scholarship and practice on education leadership that remains susceptible to corporate models of how to lead. The books additional value lies in its valuing of complexity; gone are those simplistic and formulaic accounts of 'ten steps to leadership' or 'leadership in thirty minutes.' You are drawn as reader into the many layers of leadership, its contradictions and contestations, its emotions and politics, its spirituality and the resilience of its women practitioners.A highly informative, accessible collection of narratives describing the work, challenges, and satisfactions of women academics  provides both inspiration and sound advice.Shaping Social Justice Leadership: Insights of Women Educators Worldwide was born in the Women Leading Education Across the Continents gatherings. This book is a collection of very personal accounts of the courageous leadership of women around the world paving the way for those who have been denied opportunity. Read it! You will be inspired and amazed at the strength, endurance, and resilience of these remarkable women.Stories have always been important. Through stories we learn about the experience of others, but also about ourselves and our society. We draw meaning and inslÃ;