When Care Trumps Justice: The Operationalization of Black Feminist Caring in Educational Leadership

Autor/in	Bass, Lisa
Titel	When Care Trumps Justice: The Operationalization of Black Feminist Caring in Educational Leadership
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 25 (2012) 1, S.73-87 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2011.647721
Schlagwörter	Caring; Feminism; Females; Leadership Styles; Ethics; Empathy; Instructional Leadership; Educational Administration; African American Leadership; Women Administrators; Womens Studies; Individual Characteristics; Phenomenology; Questionnaires; Focus Groups; Social Influences; Administrator Attitudes; Urban Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Feminismus; Weibliches Geschlecht; Führungsstil; Ethik; Empathie; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Weibliche Führungskraft; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Fragebogen; Sozialer Einfluss; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	In this study, I discuss the benefits of Black feminist caring (BFC) in educational leadership. I suggest that the ethic of care in educational leadership is a manifestation of strength when serving disadvantaged student populations. This article is based on a qualitative, exploratory, multicase study that examines the ethic of care in the leadership of five African-American women serving in various capacities of educational leadership. This study employs a BFC framework because the women in this study were selected because of their reputation for caring and addresses the following guiding question: how do the African-American women educational leaders in this study operationalize caring? Findings in this study indicate that caring African-American women educational leaders display the characteristics of BFC. Their experience of marginalization stirs empathy and encourages them toward an activist leadership style. As such, they are compelled to act as other mothers and activist risk-takers in their roles as educational leaders. (Contains 1 table and 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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