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Book SynopsisJustice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership is a guide for educators who are committed to equity-driven teaching, leading, and policy-making, and would like to operationalize socially just school practices for all children. Moving beyond a heroes and holidays approach to addressing racism, bias, injustice, and a cluster of isms, it provides a deeper understanding of the causes of structural inequities in schools, and suggests approaches for deconstructing them. The book includes a frank discussion of race, racism, social dominance, and implicit bias, and encourages both objective and subjective analyses of how they infect school practice.
America's ambivalent response to race, racial identity development, the nature of prejudice, and how humans form values and develop belief systems is explored in some depth. There is also a critique of Whiteness as a socio-political concept as it relates to power and privilege, and as a demographic r
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"Gloria Graves Holmes provides a passionate and clearly reasoned case for placing racial equity and social justice at the heart of any school change efforts. She challenges school administrators and teacher leaders to a higher calling for our work—not merely closing gaps and moving data points, but deconstructing the arrangements of social dominance that are the deeper causes of racial disparities. Holmes’ lifetime of research and activism shines through in every chapter." —Gary R. Howard, Author of We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know; Founder, The REACH Center for Multicultural Education; Civil Rights Activist and Tireless Advocate for Social Justice and Educational Equity
"Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership should be required reading for every teacher, administrator, and psychologist, no matter how many degrees they possess. In a nutshell, this is what it's all about—that when we talk of ignorance about 'race', what we're actually talking about is skin color. I hope that this book will cause its readers to see the world in an entirely different way, and to appreciate their fellow human beings as they never have prior to reading this remarkable work. Until we rid ourselves of the belief in several different races, and begin to realize, recognize, and admit we are all members of the same race, the human race, we will continue to treat others in less than human ways. In denying the humanity of others, we de-humanize ourselves." —Jane Elliott, Creator of the Blue Eyes–Brown Eyes Exercise; Internationally-Known Teacher, Lecturer, and Diversity Trainer
Table of Contents
List of Tables – Acknowledgements – Preface – Shayla McQueen-Lee / I Must Have Been Mistaken – Part One – If Not Courageous Conversations, Then What? – Challenging the Mystification of Social Justice – Reentering the Racial Self: Examining and Deconstructing Personal Biases – Implicit Bias and the Bias Awareness Gap: Implications for Equity-Driven Teaching and School Leadership – Social Dominance Orientation (SDO): Implications for Equity-Driven Teaching and School Leadership – Moving Forward: Biasing, (De)biasing, and Strategies for Change – Part Two – The Paradox of Power, Justice, and School Leadership: Facing Diversity—Leading Change – Teacher Leadership for Equity and Social Justice – All Teachers Can Lead—All Leaders Can Learn: Making the Case for Social Justice in Teacher and Leader Preparation – Conclusion: An Empowering Vision: Harnessing Bias and the Possibility for Change – A Conversation with an Implicit Bias Skeptic – Examples of Microaggressions in the Classroom – Index.
