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Toward a Just Leadership Learning Ecology: A CHAT-IT Analysis of the Highlander Idea
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Chang, Ethan; Glass, Ronald David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2022
Purpose: This paper conceptualizes a just leadership learning ecology through an analysis of one nontraditional site of leadership preparation: the Highlander Research and Education Center (originally founded as the Highlander Folk School). Methodology: Drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and institutional theory (IT), we examine…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Residential Programs, Social Justice, Democratic Values
Examining Whiteness as an Obstacle to Positively Approaching Immigrant Families in US Early Childhood Educational Settings
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Adair, Jennifer Keys – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
This article examines whiteness at the intersection of immigration and early childhood education as it was made visible during interviews with 50 preschool teachers in five US cities as part of the Children Crossing Borders (CCB) study. Findings show whiteness acting not only as a construct of privilege but also as an idea that manifests itself in…
Descriptors: Whites, Immigration, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Education and "Modernization" in Appalachia: With a Case Study of the Economics and Politics of Underdevelopment in an East Tennessee School District.
DeYoung, Alan J.; McKenzie, Roberta C. – Journal of Rural and Small Schools, 1992
Reviews economic and social science theories on the role of the school in economic development. Presents a case study of an underdeveloped rural Tennessee county where school improvement efforts were unsuccessful because of the sociological, political, economic, and cultural setting in which the school system operates. (KS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Church Role, Economic Development, Educational Change