Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves

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dc.contributor.authorGuerra, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorPazey, Barbara L.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-23T17:41:59Z
dc.date.available2018-07-23T17:41:59Z
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.description.abstractTo lead for social justice, scholars have maintained aspiring leaders should examine their own values and beliefs that dictate, to a great extent, their day-to-day decision-making and responsibilities. To do so requires faculty to examine themselves before they can prepare leaders for social justice. The purpose of this paper is to engage others with similar interests toward creating and/or improving programs designed to prepare leaders for social justice. Serving as a source of data and method of analysis, this duoethnography chronicles the life histories of two faculty members working in different leadership programs to reveal how their understanding of diversity and social justice has been formed over the course of their lives. Sharing stories, they dialogically critiqued and questioned each other, challenging one another to reconceptualize beliefs and meanings about their lived experiences. Duoethnography has the potential to transform faculty's conceptions of diversity and social justice as well as promote empathy, compassion and understanding. When trust is established, faculty can take risks, ask tough questions, reveal vulnerabilities, exchange uncensored comments, and challenge deficit thinking. Duoethnography can be a valuable tool for faculty development. The authors question, however, whether faculty would be willing to employ duoethnography to explore their beliefs about diversity and increase their knowledge of social justice. Due to a perceived lack of trust, power differences, fear of uncovering biases, engaging in conflict, and/or denial of tenure and promotion, they question whether faculty would be willing to engage in this methodology.
dc.description.departmentCounseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology
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dc.format.extent36 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationGuerra, P. L., & Pazey, B. L. (2016). Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves. The Qualitative Report, 21(10), pp. 1751-1784.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/7315
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNova Southeastern University
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
dc.sourceThe Qualitative Report, 2016, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1751-1784.
dc.subjecteducational leadership
dc.subjectfaculty development
dc.subjectsocial justice
dc.subjecttransformative learning
dc.subjectduoethnography
dc.subjectCounseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology
dc.titleTransforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves
dc.typeArticle

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