Melanie C Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1207154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie C Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie C |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4197-8932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools
The article advances an emergent framework for conceptualizing the relationship between principal leadership and education policy implementation. Based on a qualitative study of school principals and policy implementation in Region X of the Philippines, findings suggested that the way in which policies were interpreted and implemented at the school level was influenced by a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic dynamics and these were shaped in situ…
Introduction: Critical spirituality and religion in educational leadership
This special issue is dedicated to Dr. Michael E. Dantley in recognition of his pioneering scholarship on critical spirituality in the field of educational leadership. Dr. Dantley published Faith-Based Leadership: Ancient Rhythms or New Management in QSE in January 2005. One could say that this special issue comes full circle, as each article is rooted in Dr. Dantley’s vision of spirituality facilitating a visioning process based on critique, pos…
Racialization of Muslim students in Australia, Ireland, and the United States: Cross-cultural perspectives
The purpose of this qualitative cross-cultural case study was to better understand how Muslim students living in Australia, Ireland, and the United States navigated racism to identify ways in which school leaders and teachers can better address the structural, historical, and socioeconomic roots of racial injustice, discrimination, and ongoing oppression. Data collection was guided by a shared interview protocol that asked questions regarding fam…
Islamic school leadership: Advancing a framework for critical spirituality
The purpose of this study was to better understand how an Islamic school leader’s critical spirituality informed and shaped leadership practice. This qualitative case study explored the role of critical spirituality as it relates to social justice, gender justice, and pluralism in a progressive American Islamic school. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews, documents, and school site observations. Findings identified three components…
School leadership between the cross and the crescent: Spiritual capital and religious capital in the southern Philippines
This study investigated the ways that principal leadership practice is shaped by religion and spirituality, both in terms of how beliefs inform their work and in relation to how religion and spirituality are manifest in school and community. Data were collected over a 6-month period from public school principals working in mixed Catholic-Muslim communities in the Philippines. The authors developed a conceptual framework that integrated research o…
Teaching Jihad: Developing Religious Literacy through Graphic Novels
This study examined the representations of jihad in graphic novels to ascertain how its depictions may inform the development of religious literacy in secondary classrooms. Hegemonic constructions of jihad in the West are commonly reduced to false binaries that shape non-Muslims' extant beliefs and perceptions of Islam and Muslims. This raises concerns about the ways in which societal expectations shape knowledge formation in schools. Accordingly…
Islamic school leadership: A conceptual framework
It is urgent that education scholars explore how Islamic values shape (and are shaped by) Muslim school leader beliefs, given the heightened anti-Muslim sentiment present in western contexts. Yet, there is a lack of scholarship on non-western approaches to leading schools. To address this gap, we drew from extant Islamic and educational leadership literature to develop a conceptual framework for Islamic school leadership. The framework is grounde…
Islam and educational leadership: Advancing new spaces for dialogue and understanding
As existing educational leadership thought is principally grounded in western Judeo-Christian beliefs and values, it is important to consider Islam as it relates to educational leadership and the e
Islamic school leadership: A conceptual framework
It is urgent that education scholars explore how Islamic values shape (and are shaped by) Muslim school leader beliefs, given the heightened anti-Muslim sentiment present in western contexts. Yet, there is a lack of scholarship on non-western approaches to leading schools. To address this gap, we drew from extant Islamic and educational leadership literature to develop a conceptual framework for Islamic school leadership. The framework is grounde…
Racialization of Muslim students in Australia, Ireland, and the United States: Cross-cultural perspectives
The purpose of this qualitative cross-cultural case study was to better understand how Muslim students living in Australia, Ireland, and the United States navigated racism to identify ways in which school leaders and teachers can better address the structural, historical, and socioeconomic roots of racial injustice, discrimination, and ongoing oppression. Data collection was guided by a shared interview protocol that asked questions regarding fam…
Islamic school leadership: Advancing a framework for critical spirituality
The purpose of this study was to better understand how an Islamic school leader’s critical spirituality informed and shaped leadership practice. This qualitative case study explored the role of critical spirituality as it relates to social justice, gender justice, and pluralism in a progressive American Islamic school. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews, documents, and school site observations. Findings identified three components…
Islam and educational leadership: Advancing new spaces for dialogue and understanding
As existing educational leadership thought is principally grounded in western Judeo-Christian beliefs and values, it is important to consider Islam as it relates to educational leadership and the e
Introduction: Critical spirituality and religion in educational leadership
This special issue is dedicated to Dr. Michael E. Dantley in recognition of his pioneering scholarship on critical spirituality in the field of educational leadership. Dr. Dantley published Faith-Based Leadership: Ancient Rhythms or New Management in QSE in January 2005. One could say that this special issue comes full circle, as each article is rooted in Dr. Dantley’s vision of spirituality facilitating a visioning process based on critique, pos…
Islamic school leadership: A conceptual framework
It is urgent that education scholars explore how Islamic values shape (and are shaped by) Muslim school leader beliefs, given the heightened anti-Muslim sentiment present in western contexts. Yet, there is a lack of scholarship on non-western approaches to leading schools. To address this gap, we drew from extant Islamic and educational leadership literature to develop a conceptual framework for Islamic school leadership. The framework is grounde…
Islam and educational leadership: Advancing new spaces for dialogue and understanding
As existing educational leadership thought is principally grounded in western Judeo-Christian beliefs and values, it is important to consider Islam as it relates to educational leadership and the e
Teaching Jihad: Developing Religious Literacy through Graphic Novels
This study examined the representations of jihad in graphic novels to ascertain how its depictions may inform the development of religious literacy in secondary classrooms. Hegemonic constructions of jihad in the West are commonly reduced to false binaries that shape non-Muslims' extant beliefs and perceptions of Islam and Muslims. This raises concerns about the ways in which societal expectations shape knowledge formation in schools. Accordingly…
Racialization of Muslim students in Australia, Ireland, and the United States: Cross-cultural perspectives
The purpose of this qualitative cross-cultural case study was to better understand how Muslim students living in Australia, Ireland, and the United States navigated racism to identify ways in which school leaders and teachers can better address the structural, historical, and socioeconomic roots of racial injustice, discrimination, and ongoing oppression. Data collection was guided by a shared interview protocol that asked questions regarding fam…
Islamic school leadership: Advancing a framework for critical spirituality
The purpose of this study was to better understand how an Islamic school leader’s critical spirituality informed and shaped leadership practice. This qualitative case study explored the role of critical spirituality as it relates to social justice, gender justice, and pluralism in a progressive American Islamic school. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews, documents, and school site observations. Findings identified three components…
School leadership between the cross and the crescent: Spiritual capital and religious capital in the southern Philippines
This study investigated the ways that principal leadership practice is shaped by religion and spirituality, both in terms of how beliefs inform their work and in relation to how religion and spirituality are manifest in school and community. Data were collected over a 6-month period from public school principals working in mixed Catholic-Muslim communities in the Philippines. The authors developed a conceptual framework that integrated research o…
Introduction: Critical spirituality and religion in educational leadership
This special issue is dedicated to Dr. Michael E. Dantley in recognition of his pioneering scholarship on critical spirituality in the field of educational leadership. Dr. Dantley published Faith-Based Leadership: Ancient Rhythms or New Management in QSE in January 2005. One could say that this special issue comes full circle, as each article is rooted in Dr. Dantley’s vision of spirituality facilitating a visioning process based on critique, pos…
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools
The article advances an emergent framework for conceptualizing the relationship between principal leadership and education policy implementation. Based on a qualitative study of school principals and policy implementation in Region X of the Philippines, findings suggested that the way in which policies were interpreted and implemented at the school level was influenced by a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic dynamics and these were shaped in situ…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Educational leadership (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)