A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice
Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, Auburn University
The purpose of this book series is to promote research on educational leadership for social justice.
Specifically, we seek edited volumes, textbooks, and full!length studies focused on research that
explores the ways educational leadership preparation and practice can be a means of addressing
equity concerns throughout P-20 education.
Within this book Leadership for Social Justice: Promoting Equity and Excellence Through
Inquiry and Reflective Practice the contributors provide a variety of rich perspectives to the social
justice phenomenon from the lens of empirical, historical, narrative, and conceptual designs.
These designs reiterate the importance of bridging theory and practice while simultaneously producing
significant research and scholarship in the field. Collectively, the authors seek to give voice to empowering, social justicefocused
research-an area that continues to garner much interest in the areas of educational leadership research, teaching, and learning.
In conjunction with the "theme" of this issue, the chapters offer research from an American perspective and offer suggestions, and
implications for the field of educational leadership on both a national and international level. The collection contributes to research, theory
and practice in educational and community settings.