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Educational Leadership Among Women of Colour in United States, Canada, New Zealand

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Cultures of Educational Leadership

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A two-layered examination of cross-cultural women of color as enacting leadership for social justice is observed in this chapter. Having experienced the challenge of being students of color and later academicians, the authors reflect on their research agenda focusing on the knowledge, wisdom, and potential of women of color in educational leadership. Connections with their research relate to the improvement of children, families, and communities. In their academic life, they ask: Is it possible that the limited number of women scholars of color in academia restricts the significant knowledge of women school leaders of color? Leadership for social justice is perceived here for its generative power, emanating from the women leaders of color who can break patterns of inequities.

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  1. Texas A&M University, San Antonio, United States

    Elizabeth T. Murakami

  2. University of Northern Iowa, Louisville, United States

    Gaëtane Jean-Marie

  3. University of Auckland, Symonds St, New Zealand

    Lorri J. Santamaría

  4. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Ann E. Lopez

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Murakami, E.T., Jean-Marie, G., Santamaría, L.J., Lopez, A.E. (2017). Educational Leadership Among Women of Colour in United States, Canada, New Zealand. In: Miller, P. (eds) Cultures of Educational Leadership. Intercultural Studies in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58567-7_3

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