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Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools

Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools

Canadian Insights

Edited by Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, Stephanie Tuters and Andrew B. Campbell

Published by: Canadian Scholars

Imprint: Canadian Scholars

277 Pages, 171.00 × 248.00 mm

Paperback
9781773384634
Published: April 2025

£41.00

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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 collection's 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.

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 Métissage as Educational Leadership Praxis for Reconciliation

Chapter 6: Creating Tomorrow's Institutional Change through Cultural Leadership Today: Three Collaborative Programs Addressing the Shortage of Indigenous Teachers in Manitoba

Chapter 7: Métis 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

Editor Biographies
Contributor Biographies

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.