A social justice challenge for school leadership in Australia
Book chapter
Kimber, Megan Paige. (2020). A social justice challenge for school leadership in Australia. In Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education pp. 523-543 Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14625-2_97
Authors | Kimber, Megan Paige |
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Abstract | School leadership in many countries is affected by multiple challenges. Some are specific to the local community, some emerge from the education system, and some come from government policies. While most reforms center on better educational results for all students, whichever their specific area of focus, some reforms by their very nature, even if inadvertently, disrupt understandings of social justice. When educational reforms influence teachers’ professional and personal lives, as well as those of students, the scale of impact magnifies. School leaders’ decisions play an integral role in ameliorating that impact, not simply in implementing reform. A theoretical framework based on democratic theory is adapted and applied to high-stakes testing, school autonomy, performance pay, and commercialization and marketization to consider their impact on social justice. |
Keywords | Commercialization; Democratic deficit; High-stakes testing; Hollow state; Performance; School autonomy; Social justice |
Page range | 523-543 |
Year | 01 Jan 2020 |
Book title | Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Place of publication | Switzerland |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN | 9783030146245 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14625-2_97 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-14625-2_97 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 28 Feb 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 14 Feb 2024 |
Deposited | 26 Feb 2024 |
Additional information | © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/902vy/a-social-justice-challenge-for-school-leadership-in-australia
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