TY - JOUR
T1 - Community Organizing as Educational Leadership
T2 - Lessons From Chicago on the Politics of Racial Justice
AU - Welton, Anjalé D.
AU - Freelon, Rhoda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The University Council for Educational Administration 2017.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - The collective power of community members has the potential to shape education reform efforts through activism and community organizing. In this article, we present two cases where community organizers exhibited key leadership strategies designed to influence district decision-making about school closures in Chicago. Employing a mix of interviews, observations, and document analysis, we discuss how community organizing can be used as a framework in which to advocate for racial equity in education. By highlighting the leadership tactics parents and community organizers used to confront the racial injustice of neoliberal reforms, we argue for a broadening of traditional educational leadership paradigms.
AB - The collective power of community members has the potential to shape education reform efforts through activism and community organizing. In this article, we present two cases where community organizers exhibited key leadership strategies designed to influence district decision-making about school closures in Chicago. Employing a mix of interviews, observations, and document analysis, we discuss how community organizing can be used as a framework in which to advocate for racial equity in education. By highlighting the leadership tactics parents and community organizers used to confront the racial injustice of neoliberal reforms, we argue for a broadening of traditional educational leadership paradigms.
KW - community leadership
KW - community organizing
KW - grassroots leadership
KW - school closure
KW - urban contexts
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U2 - 10.1177/1942775117744193
DO - 10.1177/1942775117744193
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052365984
SN - 1942-7751
VL - 13
SP - 79
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Research on Leadership Education
JF - Journal of Research on Leadership Education
IS - 1
ER -