Struggling for Inclusion. Educational Leadership in a Neoliberal World 12+

📒 This book describes the struggles in which inclusive-minded administrators find themselveswhen they promote equity initiatives. Administrators routinely struggle when they attempt toinclude all members of their school communities - teachers, students, and parents - in the variousaspects of schooling. Given the presence of a host of obstacles, setting right the injusticesassociated with racism, classism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and other exclusive practices isnot an easy thing to do. Resistance from colleagues who fail to recognize exclusive practiceswhen they see them, and from others who do recognize them but see no harm, too fewresources, exclusive policies, personal uncertainties or insecurities, and conflicted priorities arejust a few of the phenomena that get in the way of these efforts. This book explores these struggles. It looks at the contexts withinwhich these encounters occur, the various challenges that inclusive-minded administrators encounter, and the strategies that theyemploy to meet these tests.Employing the results of original empirical studies, surveys of current research, recent theoretical literature and personal experiences,this book seeks to provide school leaders with a sense of what it is like to promote inclusion and equity in the contemporary neoliberalcontext. Among other things, it looks to provide educators of an understanding of the obstacles that stand in the way of inclusion, thenature of the struggles that await them, and ideas for what ...