Leading Diverse Schools

• Main Author: Ryan, James (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
• Series: Studies in Educational Leadership ; 2
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Education, general.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.

This book explores the challenges that school administrators face in ethnically diverse contexts. Based on an empirical study, it shows how principals do or do not promote inclusive practices in their schools. The various chapters cover principal perceptions of, and responses to, racism and antiraci...

Table of Contents:

• Diversity, Educational Leadership and Inclusion
• Educational Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion
• Leadership and Inclusion: A Review
• Administrator Perceptions of “Race” and Racism
• Antiracism: Strategies for Combating Racism
• Promoting Inclusive School-Community Relationships
• Administrator Perceptions of and Responses to Difference
• Dealing with Dilemmas of Difference: Two Cases
• Educative Leadership in Diverse Contexts
• The Barriers to Inclusion
• Leadership and Inclusion.