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IT’S JUST WHO I AM: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF THE EMERGENCE OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SCHOOL LEADERS

Towns, BM
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0583-6953
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu165614828440769

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Education, Cleveland State University, College of Education and Human Services.
Culturally Responsive School Leadership is one of the most essential elements of the academic and longitudinal success of minoritized students from urban hyper-ghettoized communities. Despite the impact of Culturally Responsive School Leadership, the focus on improving learning has centered teachers instead of their leaders. Upon this realization, this study set out to center the Culturally Responsive School Leader, their context within the landscape of leadership and education, the history of Black Americans, and the frameworks of cultural and social capital as critical to the manner in which Culturally Responsive School Leaders engage with their students, families, communities, and the educational institution. This study interviewed twelve school leaders from a large metropolitan school district and its adjacent school districts about their journey to school leadership, their understandings of cultural capital, and how they performed their roles and responsibilities in light of their perceptions of cultural capital and their journey to school leadership. Participants consistently revealed a chronology of events throughout their lives that set them on the path of education and educational leadership that detailed them being Culturally Responsive, becoming a School Leader and doing Culturally Responsive School Leadership. They would also suggest that Culturally Responsive School Leaders emerge, they are not developed; they connect in authentic ways to those they serve, and they rectify, not repair, the harm executed against minoritized communities through their position as school leader.
Anne Galletta (Committee Chair)
Joanne Gooddell (Committee Member)
Tachelle Banks (Committee Member)
Jeffrey Snyder (Committee Member)
199 p.
Education; Education Philosophy; Education Policy; Educational Leadership
Culturally Responsive School Leader, Culturally Responsive Principal, Cultural Responsiveness, CRT, Education, Administration, Educational Policy

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  • Towns, B. (2022). IT’S JUST WHO I AM: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF THE EMERGENCE OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SCHOOL LEADERS [Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu165614828440769

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Towns, BM. IT’S JUST WHO I AM: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF THE EMERGENCE OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SCHOOL LEADERS. 2022. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu165614828440769.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Towns, BM. "IT’S JUST WHO I AM: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF THE EMERGENCE OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SCHOOL LEADERS." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu165614828440769

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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