Shaping Social Justice Leadership: Insights of Women Educators Worldwide

By Linda L. Lyman, Jane Strachan, Angeliki Lazaridou

Book Overview

Shaping Social Justice Leadership: Insights of Women Educators Worldwide contains evocative portraits of twenty-three women educators and leaders from around the world whose actions are shaping social justice leadership. The portraits are framed with relevant scholarship and grouped thematically. Each carefully crafted portrait highlights an aspect of a chapter theme, followed by practical insights. The chapters develop a range of cultural comparisons, illustrate imperatives for social justice leadership, and examine values, skills, resilience, leadership pathways and actions. The authors invite all educators--both women and men--to shape social justice leadership through collective efforts around the globe that create new possibilities for a more just world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610485645
• ISBN13: 9781610485647
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher