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Conflict, Crisis, And Controversy In Schools: Critical Literacy For Educational Leadership Response And Responsibility, Charles L. Lowery
Conflict, Crisis, And Controversy In Schools: Critical Literacy For Educational Leadership Response And Responsibility, Charles L. Lowery
Journal of Educational Controversy
In this article, I operationalize the concept of critical literacy for educational leaders facing conflict, crisis, and controversy in PK12 schools. Specifically, an emphasis is placed on political, moral, cultural, and spatial-temporal literacies. School leaders can develop these habits of criticality to shape unconventional and nuanced responses that are better suited for leading schools as democratic spaces in a politically polarized and socially divided society. Just as readers learn to decode and comprehend written texts to become literate, critically literate educational leaders are equipped to decode the cultural texts of contentious situations and comprehend the meaning of critical incidents through …
Stories Of Social Justice Educators And Raising Children In The Face Of Injustice, James Wright, Amanda U. Potterton
Stories Of Social Justice Educators And Raising Children In The Face Of Injustice, James Wright, Amanda U. Potterton
Journal of Educational Controversy
This article examines life stories of the authors, who are parents and social justice scholars and educators from different races and backgrounds. The authors consider the emotional process of personally and collectively coping with and navigating parenting and sharing critical truths with their children in the current social, political, and cultural environment and in light of recent assaults on communities of color. They employ life history methodology to explicitly continue a critical conversation that was started by Matias and Montoya (2015) about Critical Race Parenting, and they encourage other scholars, particularly those who are parents, to think about, and articulate, …