Transforming Educational Leadership
Non-Traditional Narratives to Promote Equity in Uncertain Times
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197750551
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 236x157x17 mm
- Weight 308 g
- Language English 692
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Short description:
Transforming Educational Leadership presents a powerful collection of research-based stories highlighting how different stakeholders promote meaningful change in and around schools. Placing leadership theory in conversation with narratives and stories from students, parents, educators, organization leaders, scholars, and thought leaders, Anindya Kundu provides takeaways to equip readers with tools to combat weaknesses and disparities in the US education system. Kundu's work demonstrates how anyone can and must become a leader in education for our school systems to live up to their potential.
MoreLong description:
As educational settings in the United States become more diverse and uncertain, students need support in new and formative non-academic ways. To combat the deep inequalities that persist across the educational system, we need transformative leadership. Yet given rigid institutional rules, a legacy of structural barriers, and political attacks meant to discredit and defund schools, how can educational leaders effectively promote equity and champion the rights of all students?
Transforming Educational Leadership sets out to answer this question by examining the lived experiences of leaders from a range of vantages--students, parents, educators, organizational leaders, and scholars. Drawing key lessons from their narratives and considering them alongside theory from sociological and leadership studies, Anindya Kundu presents tools for emerging and seasoned leaders, equipping them to build better systems to address stakeholders' basic needs, apply research to make sense of complex problems, maintain conviction in the face of staunch opposition, promote the agency of everyone served, and uphold dignity through educational leadership. Ultimately, Transforming Educational Leadership calls us to action: to broaden our conceptions around what educational leadership is and should be, to become the leaders we can be, and to reclaim education as our collective responsibility, so we can together learn to root out and heal the inequalities that plague the US education system and its learners.
Once again, Anindya Kundu has pushed his readers to look beyond the boundaries of conventional knowledge in order to understand what it takes for education to play a role in advancing societal change. Rather than revisiting the usual topics covered in most books on leadership in education, he focuses on the stories and lessons that have made it possible for some education leaders to transform the institutions they have led to make it possible to counter inequity and injustice. Written in clear and accessible language, I am certain that Kundu's book will quickly be recognized as an invaluable resource for educational leaders who seek to make a difference in the schools they lead and the communities they serve.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
The Sociology of Leading Systems Change
Build Better Systems
Make Sense of the Nonsensical
Stick to Your Guns
Hand-Ups Over Handouts
Center Human Dignity
Conclusion
