What is it about?
The paper argues that social justice is known by engaging in actions making the concept of social justice both contextual and political. But yes, ethics matters, too.
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Why is it important?
Combing postmodern perspectives (fragility, fragmentation, temporality, etc.) with the doing of educational leadership for social justice calls upon leaders to do this work (of social justice) continuously.
Perspectives
This article was my third attempt at trying to understand the relationship between educational leadership and social justice. In my first attempt (a conference presentation), I hid behind humor because I wasn't sure at the time (late 1990s) that the field was ready for engaging in the beyond spaces of social justice. In my second attempt, which I put into ERIC, the subtitle was "from theory to practice." I was still playing it safe. But with encouragement from the journal editor, I reworked the construct and its relationship to practice (using Dewey, of course) and switched the order to "from practice to theory." I wish someone - not me - might be willing to compare the three approaches.
Dr. Ira Bogotch
Florida Atlantic University
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This page is a summary of: Educational Leadership and Social Justice: Practice into Theory, Journal of School Leadership, March 2002, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/105268460201200203.
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