Shaping Social Justice Leadership

Shaping Social Justice Leadership: Insights of Women Educators Worldwide contains evocative portraits of twenty-three women educators and leaders from around the world whose actions are shaping social justice leadership. Woven from words of their own narratives, the women’s voices lift off the page into readers’ hearts and minds to inspire and inform. Representing fourteen countries, these members of Women Leading Education Across the Continents (WLE) portray the complexity of twenty-first-century leadership. The variety of continents, countries, personal backgrounds, professional positions, and ages of those who contributed narratives give the book credibility. The portraits are framed with relevant scholarship and grouped thematically. Each carefully crafted portrait highlights an aspect of a chapter theme, followed by practical insights. The chapters develop a range of cultural comparisons, illustrate imperatives for social justice leadership, and examine values, skills, resilience, leadership pathways and actions. The authors invite all educators—both women and men—to shape social justice leadership through collective efforts around the globe that create new possibilities for a more just world.

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Linda L. Lyman is a professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations at Illinois State University. Her scholarship and publications, including three previous books, focus on educational leadership with an emphasis on issues of gender, caring, poverty, women, and social justice.

Jane Strachan recently retired from her position as an associate professor at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. She has published widely on the subjects of educational leadership, social justice, gender, women, policy development, and Pacific education.

Angeliki Lazaridou is a lecturer on tenure track at the University of Thessaly, in Volos, Greece. Her teaching and research interests focus on school administration and leadership, particularly on issues of effectiveness, ethics and values, gender, women, and learning communities.