Student affairs and services leadership role toward social justice in higher education

Abstract

This handbook identifies some of the causes and effects of social injustices on international education/schools globally, and how leaders might address them. With over half of the chapter authors from outside the USA, the topics and methods vary greatly. The work offers new understandings that look critically at the theoretical and methodological ways of knowing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. It emphasizes on critical perspectives, troubling the taken-for-grant ideas and norms that often act as barriers to realizing socially just practices within schools. Since the publication of the first edition in 2014, our world has seen a dramatic rise in populist authoritarian governments whose educational policies have exacerbated social injustices, such as criminalizing immigration and migration, banning books, and excluding LGBTQ teachers or failing to educate equitably LGBTQ students among many other social injustices. What will clearly distinguish this second edition of Educational Leadership and Social (In)justice is how we bring together fourth-generation research knowledge of educational leadership for social justice.