Decolonizing Educational Leadership : Exploring Alternative Approaches to Leading Schools (1st ed. 2020. 2021. xiii, 96 S. XIII, 96 p. 2 illus. 210 mm)

This book offers new ways of engagement for leaders seeking to connect theory to practice in decolonizing education. In the current climate where xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiments, and other forms of exclusion make up much of the discourse, educational leaders need to seek ways to foreground other forms of knowledge and transfer them into their daily leadership practices. Lopez contributes to other critical leadership approaches while foregrounding a decolonizing approach that unsettles the coloniality manifested in education and school practices. Chapters provide school leaders with examples of ways they can challenge coloniality, white supremacy, and other forms of oppression in schooling that negatively impact some students and their educational outcomes. 1. Introduction: Toward a Theory of Decolonizing Educational Leadership.- 2. Examining Field of Educational Leadership: Challenges and Possibilities.- 3. Coloniality and Educational Leadership Discourse.- 4. Decolonizing the Mind: Process of Un-learning, Re-learning, Re-reading and Re-framing for Educational Leaders.- 5. Restoring Capacity: Decolonizing Education and School Leadership Practices.- 6. Re-centering and Re-connecting: Creating Space for Renewal.- 7. Conclusion: Looping Back and Moving Forward. Ann E. Lopez is Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Director of the Center for Leadership and Diversity, and Provostial Advisor on Access Programs at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Leadership in Diverse Contexts: From Theory to Action (2016).