Abolitionist Leadership in Schools - Undoing Systemic Injustice Through Communally Conscious Education

List of contents

Introduction: An Ongoing Pursuit 1. Take Refuge in How: An Abolitionist Approach to Communal Consciousness in Teaching, Learning, and Care 2. A Tree with Roots: Probing American History to Situate an Abolitionist Approach to Crisis 3. Survival Is Not an Academic Skill: Radically Humanizing Trauma as a Means of Power in Navigating Crisis 4. Knowing People and Place: Strategic Planning for Communal Consciousness 5. The Danger of Acting: Making Decisions as Acts of Resistance at the Risk of Resentment 6. Just Say the Thing: Communicating Clearly, Directly, and Humanely 7. Asking a Lot of All: Reimagining Accountability for the Sake of the Community Conclusion: A New Way, a New World, a New Song

About the author

Dr. Robert S. Harvey is Superintendent of East Harlem Scholars Academies, a community-based network of public charter schools in New York City, and Chief Academic Officer of East Harlem Tutorial Program, where he manages an Out-of-School Time program and Teaching Residency. An educator, community broker, and public voice, he has written and spoken extensively on education, race, and intersectional justice; serves on education and arts boards across the country; and is Visiting Professor in the Practice of Public Leadership at the Memphis Theological Seminary.

Summary

Abolitionist Leadership in Schools offers school and district leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring, and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and communities in crisis.

Product details

• Authors: ROBERT HARVEY, Robert S Harvey, Robert S. Harvey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367679279
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67927-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational, Political leaders & leadership, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Schools, Political leaders and leadership, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy