SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PROPOSALS & PAPERS Educational Leadership Against Racism: Challenging Policy, Pedagogy and Practice (To Be Published in December 2014)

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PROPOSALS & PAPERS

Educational Leadership Against Racism:

Challenging Policy, Pedagogy and Practice

(To Be Published in December 2014)

Guest Editors

·      Jeffrey S. Brooks, Professor, University of Idaho

·      Christopher B. Knaus, Professor, University of Washington Tacoma

·      Heewon Chang, Professor, Eastern University

Call for Manuscripts

Over the past two decades, educational leadership scholars and practitioners have written about the role of leadership in promoting educational equity across multicultural populations. While this is encouraging, fewer works have documented and analyzed the various ways that personal, interpersonal, and institutional racism influences the conceptualization and practice of leadership at various levels of the educational system. Discussions of racism are often reduced to achievement gaps or micro-aggressions, rather than an interrogation of various systemic aspects that include teacher preparation, policy, and pedagogy that operate under a global context of whiteness and colonization. These systems have established inequitable schooling processes and outcomes that are often supported by leadership roles, routes, and practices.

The purpose of this special issue is to consider and interrogate the roles of leadership as a lever against institutionalized and structural racism in all levels of education and to foster global dialogue around a critical view of what educational leadership should and could be. While we acknowledge that the educational achievement of various racial and ethnic groups is an important dynamic, in this special issue, we are interested in works that transcend this narrow focus and instead embrace more expansive critiques that examine various systems in school and society with regard to leadership.

We are thus seeking manuscripts that interrogate the policies, pedagogy, and practice of educational leadership that counteract institutional and structural racism. While the editors will consider any work related to educational leadership and racism, manuscripts that address one or more of the following will be given preference in the review process:

1.     Educational practice in classrooms, schools, and communities;

2.     Educational reform and organizational structures, as conceived and enacted as a local, national, and/or international phenomenon;

3.     Educational policy, design, implementation, and analysis;

4.     Educational pedagogy, processes, and outcomes in schools, pre-service preparation programs, and professional development.

Manuscripts can be comparative (across countries and contexts) or focused within a particular country but should be useful to a global audience. We invite a variety of approaches, including qualitative or quantitative studies, but also critical analyses, narratives, and theoretical or philosophical arguments. Importantly, we are looking for new perspectives and voices in this conversation, and strongly encourage innovative approaches to understanding educational leadership within a context of racism.

The Process

Please submit a proposal of approximately 750 words, excluding references, that explains the purpose, conceptual orientation and methodological approach of your article no later than March 15, 2014. Please submit your proposal directly to the IJME website (http://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/about/submissions - onlineSubmissions). All proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria: (1) Proposals should be aligned with the purpose of IJME; (2) Proposals should clearly articulate how they are situated in the extant research base; (3) Proposals should investigate a significant problem or issue; (4) Proposals, in case of research reports, should utilize an appropriate research methodology and demonstrate ethical research; (5) Proposals should present findings as thoroughly as possible and discuss how these findings constitute a novel contribution to the study of educational leadership and racism.  

Proposals will be reviewed and authors will be notified in a timely manner. After proposal acceptance, full–length article submissions will be due July 1, 2014.

Articles not aligned to IJME’s submission guidelines will not be reviewed (see http://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions). All submissions will be prescreened by the special issue editors based on their general fitness to the journal and the special issue. Prescreened submissions will then undergo double-blind peer review and also be reviewed by special issue editors.

Questions?

Please contact Jeffrey S. Brooks (jsbrooks@uidaho.edu) or Chris Knaus (activeeducation@yahoo.com).