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This book identifies various inequities in Canadian education systems - including race, gender, sexuality, religion, Indigenous, and linguistic issues, - and suggests ways to overcome systemic barriers.
List of contents
Foreword
Introduction: Leading for Systemic Educational Transformation in Canada
Part I. Transformative Leadership in Practice
1. Transformative Leadership Theory: A Comprehensive Approach to Equity, Inclusion, Excellence, and Social Justice
2. Transformative Leadership: Leading French-Language Schools in Canadian Anglo-Dominant Contexts
3. Transformative Educational Leadership: Leading for Equity and Social Justice in the 21st Century
Part II. Equitable and Socially Just Approaches to Leadership
4. Challenges and Choices: Sustaining Social Justice Leadership in Ontario Schools
5. Disrupting and Dismantling Deficit Thinking in Schools through Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy
6. Perspectives of Social Justice Leadership: A Duo-ethnographic Study
7. Social Justice Teaching and Leadership in Higher Education: Decentring Whiteness and Addressing Alt-Right Resistance
Part III. Decentring Discrimination
8. Canadian Indigenous Leadership for Social Justice in the Face of Social Group Apraxia: Renovating the State Colonization Built
9. Washroom Dramas and Transgender Politics: A Transformative Approach to Gendered Spaces in Canadian Public Schools
10. Supporting Newcomer Refugee Students’ Adaptation in Schools: Challenges, Practices and Recommendations through the Lens of a Compassion-Based Framework
11. New Canadian Student Leadership: "It’s More than Just a Tour"
12. School Leadership in the Era of Bill 21: A Call for Commitment and Courage
Conclusion: The Future of Leading for Systemic Educational Transformation in Canada
Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Andréanne Gélinas-Proulx and Carolyn M. Shields
Summary
This book identifies various inequities in Canadian education systems – including race, gender, sexuality, religion, Indigenous, and linguistic issues, – and suggests ways to overcome systemic barriers.
