Doctoral education is a time of profound identity shaping. Educational leadership continues to be dominated by assumptions about Whiteness and maleness as well as calls to center social justice in the educational leadership curriculum. In this paper, I describe the critical pedagogical approaches and underpinnings I used in the genesis,…

Technology has been used worldwide for education, careers, communication, and daily functioning. Technology can have societal benefits and positive influences on students' development and opportunities for success. The unprecedented use of technology during a global pandemic has prompted parents, counselors, and educators to rethink the learning…

While there have been myriad and significant changes in technology, geopolitical relations, environmental shifts and political upheaval, we are still plagued with social inequalities, injustice, warfare and xenophobia, all of which frames our context and contextual analysis. September 11 was a global event or moment because it happened in the…

After the September 11, 2001, terrorism attack, bumper stickers appeared vowing "9/11 We Will Never Forget," yet Indigenous Peoples' telling of historical events of terrorism and violence is dismissed or expected to be forgotten. Critical race theory and tribal critical race theory are used to conduct an analysis of subjugated Indigenous…

In schools, children do not tend to be positioned as fully human. Strong neoliberal currents perpetuate objectification, a focus on technical mastery, and mechanisms for sorting and categorizing. As part of our ongoing design-based research to revise a sequence of elementary literacy methods courses, we have collaborated university faculty and…

Despite the fact that the concept of transformative leadership has garnered wider attention in recent years, its definition and application have remained elusive for many school leaders. For instance, one of the authors was invited to speak at a regional leadership conference with more than 800 school administrators in attendance. During the…

Schooling has become a technology of efficiency and acculturation that privileges a specific worldview--namely that of technical and capital interests--that informs and encapsulates the totality of the schooling experience at the exclusion of other possibilities. This article discusses one way in which schooling has been commodified and one…

Family literacy initiatives are historically rooted in positivism. In relationship to family literacy, the positivist paradigm is dangerous, as it strips the participants of power and removes their opportunities for voice. In response, a socially just approach to family literacy intervention is offered here. This approach embraces the context of…

Given the increasingly hostile and contested nature of education today, it is important to examine the development of the field of educational administration in order to understand how historic perspectives have held the field firmly anchored in some of the technical and scientific traditions of the past and how difficult it has been to introduce…

This article develops the foundations of a revolutionary Marxist social studies education, which can better equip students and workers to push toward the socialist transformation of society. We demonstrate the processes by which today's educational system developed in the transition from the era of manufacturing to the era of industry, linking the…