Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity

Linda C. Tillman, James Joseph Scheurich

Routledge, Aug 21, 2013 - Education - 776 pages

The rapid growth of diversity within U.S. schooling and the heightened attention to the lack of equity in student achievement, school completion, and postsecondary attendance has made equity and diversity two of the principle issues in education, educational leadership, and educational leadership research. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity is the first research-based handbook that comprehensively addresses the broad diversity in U.S. schools by race, ethnicity, culture, language, gender, disability, sexual identity, and class.

The Handbook both highly values the critically important strengths and assets that diversity brings to the United States and its schools, yet at the same time candidly critiques the destructive deficit thinking, biases, and prejudices that undermine school success for many groups of students. Well-known chapter authors explore diversity and related inequities in schools and the achievement problems these issues present to school leaders. Each chapter reviews theoretical and empirical evidence of these inequities and provides research-based recommendations for practice and for future research. Celebrating the broad diversity in U.S. schools, the Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity critiques the inequities connected to that diversity, and provides evidence-based practices to promote student success for all children.

Contents

• The Tradition in Educational Leadership Where We Have Come from and where We Are Going: 1
• Understanding and Working Successfully With the Rich Racial and Ethnic Diversity Within US Schools: 105
• Understanding and Working Successfully With the Rich Language Cultural Social Class Ability Gender and Sexual OrientationGender Identity Diver...: 249
• Research on Equitable and Excellent Schools Lessons for Leadership Practice: 405
• Critical Issues for Successful Schooling of all Students: 511
• Promoting the Preparation of Successful Leaders for Diverse Equitable Schools: 597
• About the Editors: 703
• About the Section Editors: 704
• About the Contributors: 706
• Author Index: 716
• Subject Index: 742

About the author

Linda C. Tillman is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

James Joseph Scheurich is Professor and the Coordinator of the Urban Education Studies program at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity
• Editors: Linda C. Tillman, James Joseph Scheurich
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2013
• ISBN: 113512843X, 9781135128432
• Length: 776 pages
• Subjects: Education / Leadership; Education / Multicultural Education