Social justice leadership: implications for roles and responsibilities of school administrators
Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Social justice is an issue widely debated in the literature. In particular, the roles and responsibilities of school administrators and teachers to ensure social justice in education have been discussed intensively. These discussions have led to emerging of social justice leadership as a new type of leadership and working on. The main purpose of this article is to make an analysis of social justice and social justice leadership based on the literature and to review roles and responsibilities of school administrators related to social justice leadership. Firstly a broad definition of the concept of social justice has been done. Secondly the concept of social justice leadership has been examined and this new type of leadership and its relationships with other types of leadership have been analyzed. Finally the roles and responsibilities of school administrators related to social justice leadership for creation socially just schools have been discussed.
Author: Muhammed Turhan
Institution: Fırat University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2020605127