Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools explores courageous methods for educational leadership and principalship in Canada to move beyond additive discourses of diversity to dismantling systems of oppression for thriving schools and communities. It is a timely collection rooted in diverse approaches to activism that names, disrupts, and challenges dominant leadership discourses and practices that perpetuate harm to underserved communities.
Throughout Canada, educational policies and mandates are often implemented without meaningful collaboration with the students, families, and communities they are intended to serve, thereby exacerbating systemic, structural, and institutional barriers. The collections social justice approach to activism and leadership bridges gaps between policies, institutions, and communities. It calls for a more just education system that carves out spaces of belonging by honouring the lived experiences, identities, and intersectionalities of all students.
This book is an invaluable resource for Canadian university education programs with courses focusing on educational leadership, diversity, social justice, or inclusive education. It also serves educational administration, existing teachers, principals, higher education instructors and researchers, policy makers, and activists.
Dr. Zuhra Abawi is an Assistant Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Masters in Educational Leadership program at Niagara University Ontario.
Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, community activist, and Executive Director of the non-profit organization Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE) in Toronto.
Dr. Stephanie Tuters is sessional lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Andrew B. Campbell is an Assistant Professor in Leadership in Racial Justice in Teacher Education, Coordinator for the Black Future Educators Pathway (BFEP), and the Director for the Centre for Black Studies in Education (CBSE) at the University of Toronto.
Dedications Acknowledgements Foreword
Introduction: Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools: An Overview
Chapter 1: Activist Leadership for Equitable and Inclusive School-Community Ecosystems
Chapter 2: More than Leading by Caring: Female Leadership in the Private Education Sector in Quebec
Chapter 3: Addressing White Supremacy within Principalship
Chapter 4: Enacting Transformative Leadership at the System Level: Leader Narratives from a Small District School Board in Ontario
Chapter 5: Indigenous Metissage as Educational Leadership Praxis for Reconciliation
Chapter 6: Creating Tomorrows Institutional Change through Cultural Leadership Today: Three Collaborative Programs Addressing the Shortage of Indigenous Teachers in Manitoba
Chapter 7: Metis Settlements Net Teachings: Ethics of Indigenous Educational Leadership Bundles
Chapter 8: Transforming Leadership Through Emancipatory Gender and Sexuality Alliances
Chapter 9: Re-imagining Schooling with the Principles of Disability Justice
Chapter 10: The Personal, the Professional, and the Political: Ontario Health Education and Queer Activist Leadership
Chapter 11: The Activist Leadership Role of the Islamic Schools Association of Canada in Enriching the Experience of Canadian Islamic Schools
Chapter 12: Queer Mad Leadership and Disrupting Neoliberal Professionalism in Schools: Queer Mad Ruptures in Education
Chapter 13: Inclusive Leadership: Cultivating and Sustaining an Equitable School Culture and Climate for Marginalized Students in Ontario Schools
Conclusion: A Poem for Scholar Activists, School Leaders, and Community Practitioners
