The Sage Handbook of Critical Educational Leadership

Professor Shirley R. Steinberg is Research Professor of Critical Youth Studies at the University of Calgary. She is the author and editor of many books in critical pedagogy, urban and youth culture, and cultural studies and a regular contributor to local and international media. The co-founder of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, she is the founder of International Institute of Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership. Steinberg is committed to a global community of transformative educators and community workers engaged in radical love, social justice, and the situating of power within social and cultural contexts, specifically involving youth.

Introduction - Renee Desmarchelier and Shirley R. Steinberg Section 1: Philosophy - R. Michael Fisher Chapter 1: The First Nations Threshold - Cally Jetta and Emerson Payne Chapter 2: Learning from the Canvas of a Contentious History: A Critical Philosophical Approach to Addressing Systemic Discrimination in Education - Carolyn M. Shields Chapter 3: Philosophical Foundation and Practical Strategies for Navigating Autonomy and Solidarity in Critical Educational Leadership - Robert M. White Chapter 4: Theorizing Space in Critical Educational Administration and Leadership - Augustos Riveros Chapter 5: 50 Years and Continuing: An Indigenous-Based Personal Narrative On Lack of Critical Leadership in Education - Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Don Trent Jacobs Section 2: Critically Sustaining Leadership: Doing EDI in a Time of White Oligarchy - Awad Ibrahim Chapter 6: Exploring the Role of Transdisciplinarity in Cultivating Critical Pedagogy within Colonized Educational Systems - Ike Ikerionwu Chapter 7: Decolonizing Higher Education Leadership through Indigenous Knowledges - Cally Jetta Chapter 8: Regenerative Learning through Indigenous Sustainment: Leadership through Principles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching - Gabrielle Murray and Ann Standish Chapter 9: Critical Leadership in Education: Lessons from Critical Pedagogy - Christine Morley and Alyssa Venning Chapter 10: Leadership for Self-Determination: Exploring Emerging Indigenous Australian Frameworks for Higher Education Governance - Susan Page and Michelle Trudgett Chapter 11: A "Counterstory" to Expose the (Colour)Blind-Spots of Leadership in Higher Education - Jerome Cranston Chapter 12: AI in Higher Education: A Leadership Challenge for Equity - Alexander Sidorkin Chapter 13: Social Change Declarations and Actions in Canadian Universities: Implications of and for Leadership and Governance Epistemologies - Arig al Shaibah Chapter 14: The Neoliberal University: Investigating the Experiences of Faculty Members in the Era of Neoliberal Accountability and Performativity in Ontario Universities - Melanie Lawrence and Goli Rezai-Rashti Chapter 15: Disrupting Systemic Inequity through Intersectionality-Informed Leadership in Higher Education: Reempowering Myself as a First Nations Disabled Female Academic - Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes Chapter 16: Developing Cultural Competence in Leadership for a Globalised World - Slaven Drinovac Chapter 17: Signs of the Times: Globalizing Change and British Cultural Tradition in Postcolonial Elite Schools - Cameron McCarthy Chapter 18: Emergent Leadership for More Expansive Institutions - Carrie Smith Section 3: Putting Hope back into Messy Leadership in Challenging Times - Lisa Cary Chapter 19: Niceness as a Barrier to Critical Leadership in Education: Exploring the Role of Diplomacy, Courage, and Relationality in Contentious Times - Angelina E. Castagno and Donna W. Lewis Chapter 20: Emergent Leadership Approach as a Positive By-Product of Merging Digital Technology with Indigenous Pedagogy - Katrina Cutcliffe and Cally Jetta Chapter 21: Ethical Imperatives for International Students: Leading Amidst Neoliberal Pressures - Mohit Dudeja and Gerald Walton Chapter 22: Notes Toward an Improvisational Leadership: Making It Up Together in Critical Leadership - Andrew Hickey, Stewart Riddle, and Robert Hattam Chapter 23: Critical Education Leadership Praxis: Exploding the Affective Turn - R. Michael Fisher Chapter 24: Creative Imperative: Pedagogical Leadership in an Age of Anxiety - Misty Paterson Chapter 25: Leading from the Middle: Adaptive Leadership Strategies for Mid-Level Managers in Higher Education - Harriet Thurber Rasmussenm and Mohammed Raei Chapter 26: Epistemology and the Frayed Edges of Science, Democracy and Education - Stephen Fleury and Michael L. Bentley Section 4: Critical Research and Cultural Studies of Leadership - Teresa Anne Fowler Chapter 27: Racial Belonging and Teacher Agency: Troubling Anti-Critical Education Leadership - Phillip A. Boda, Kylee Coney, and Nahid Husain-Habib Chapter 28: How to Build Effective Educational Leadership? The Role of Irony and the Practice of Dialogue in the Classroom - Chiara Carletti Chapter 29: Navigating Transition and Moving Forward: Leadership Journeys in the Academy - Barbara Brown, Colleen Kawalilak, Sylvie Roy, and Frederique Covington Corbett Chapter 30: Transformative Leadership through Critical Pedagogy: Navigating Educational Constraints with Reflective Practice and Resilience - Brian A. Benoit Chapter 31: Pedagogical Guides to Enacting Critical Praxis in Education Leadership - Neisha Terry Chapter 32: Critical 'Comm.Unity' Pedagogy of Leadership for Anti-Racism Education - Andrew W. Habana Hafner Chapter 33: Re-Imagining Educational Leadership: A Critical Praxis Grounded in Hope and Love - Jaime Alvaro Paredes Paez Chapter 34: Remember to Dream: Reconsidering Educational Leadership Frameworks in Relation to the Leadership of Paulo Freire - Tricia M. Kress and Nadine Sanchez Chapter 35: Culturally Responsive Caring PreK-12 School Principals: A Call for Anti-Carceral Leadership - Antonio L. Ellis, Aimee Cepeda, and William N. Thomas IV Chapter 36: Afterword - Renee Desmarchelier and Shirley R. Steinberg