"Making Her Community a Better Place to Live": Culturally Responsive Urban School Leadership in Historical Context

Autor/in	Johnson, Lauri
Titel	"Making Her Community a Better Place to Live": Culturally Responsive Urban School Leadership in Historical Context
Quelle	In: Leadership and Policy in Schools, 5 (2006) 1, S.19-36 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1570-0763
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; Women Administrators; African Americans; Case Studies; Leadership Qualities; Educational History; Principals; Culturally Relevant Education; African American Teachers; Biographies; African American Education; Activism; Educational Innovation; Social Justice; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Weibliche Führungskraft; Afroamerikaner; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Führungseigenschaft; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Principal; Schulleiter; African Americans; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	This article examines the notion of "culturally responsive leadership" through a historical case study of the life of Gertrude Elise MacDougald Ayer, the first African American woman principal in New York City. I begin by situating Ayer's leadership practice in light of the social and political context of Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s. Then I compare her leadership approach to findings from historiographies of African American educators before 1960, as well as current case studies of African American women leaders. In the end I conceptualize the "culturally responsive" urban school leader as public intellectual, curriculum innovator, and social activist and argue that leadership for social justice must be analyzed in light of the historical, political, and social contexts in which it is practiced. (Contains 16 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10