Keywords

Educational Leadership; social justice leadership; Educational Future

Abstract

Piquing reader’s utmost profound curiosities by rolling the future back to the present, English, Papa, Mullen, and Creighton’s assiduously address genuine social-political and democratic current world matters related to educational administration in their most riveting newest, Educational Leadership at 2050: Conjectures, Challenges, and Promises. Readers simply will not be able to put this book down until they have mentally reconciled the thought provoking truths and predictions that reveal serious and even harsh insights of historical, moral, and philosophical realities involved in educational administration as it clearly celebrates social justice as a vision for progressive education systems. The author’s judiciously scrutinize educational and societal discontinuities in their useful and daring views in addressing the uphill battle educational leadership faces as it prepares through mid-century. With social justice leadership and equity at forefront, digital native practice and preparation are explored as they talk through today’s cautionary predictor signs such as re-segregation and marketization of the public schools, education union demonization and de-professionalization, widening achievement gaps, online diploma mills, scoring scandals, and the erosion of the full-time higher education faculty. Seamless predictions grounded in reality are the foci these authors neatly tie together in three profound sections: Challenges, Conjectures, and Promises. This thought provoking read, offers direction, discourse, insight, and hope for education’s future.

Date Created

January 2013

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