I Love These Girls-I Was These Girls

Women Leading for Social Justice in a Single-Sex Public School

Bibliographic Data

ID5776481
AuthorsKatherine Cumings Mansfield (0000-0002-3395-0761, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond., corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume23
Issue4
Pages640-663
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of School Leadership (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1052-6846 • E-ISSN: 2631-9659
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/105268461302300404
OpenAlexW2414299811
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited8

The purpose of this article is to share the findings from a 2-year ethnography that examined female practitioners' experiences in the field. The article describes the intentions, discourses, actions, and repercussions of female administrators and teachers working to accomplish social justice for racial/ethnic minority girls from challenging economic circumstances. The discourse adjoining social justice intentions and actions is shared with descriptions of the specific material, intellectual, and emotional ways that female educators labored for social justice in their particular context. The impact of taking an explicitly activist stance in facilitating transformative learning opportunities is discussed along with implications for practice

Social justice · Transformative learning · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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