Educational Leadership and Social Justice: 4.0

Working through tensions, conflicts, and contradictions are everyday realities for practicing educators and educational researchers who struggle to undue social injustices. The aim of this essay looks critically at the dimensions of educational leadership for social justice with respect to (1) educational roles and responsibilities (i.e., leadership and concepts), and (3) real-world correlates (i.e., the actual effects of injustices). In so doing, the research agenda moves beyond single-axis, single-frame, one-dimensional, or strictly single-problem empirical studies. The intent is not to either define social justice or resolve the tensions, conflicts, and contradictions of everyday realities; rather, it recognizes that whether educators are engaged in practice or research, we need a more holistic and critical awareness of the meanings of social justice that encompasses the dynamics within and beyond schooling.