Despite the federal government’s historical effort to ensure educational equity via policies targeting issues critical to U.S. urban cities, a transformation has taken place in the discourses shaping educational policy solutions. While policies targeting educational equity have not completely vanquished, they have been largely re-written by discourses of efficiency and accountability. Informed by Hajer’s notion of policy vocabularies, this article highlights how the written inscription of equity-related discourses within documents used to guide leadership preparation may shape the ways in which programs consider the construction of curricula focused on issues related to equity.
BallS. (2008). The education debate. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press.
2.
BlackmoreJ. (2009). Leadership for social justice: A transnational dialogue. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 4, 1-10.
3.
BrownK. M. (2004). Leadership for social justice and equity: Weaving a transformative framework and pedagogy. Educational Administration Quarterly, 40, 79-110.
4.
BrownK. M. (2006). Leadership for social justice and equity: Evaluating a transformative framework and andragogy. Educational Administration Quarterly, 42, 700-745.
5.
Cambron-McCabeN.McCarthyM. M. (2005). Educating school leaders for social justice. Educational Policy, 19, 201-222.
6.
CarpenterB. W. (2011). (Re) Framing the Politics of Educational Discourse: An Investigation of the Title I School Improvement Grant Program of 2009. (Doctoral Dissertation). Available through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database (AAT 3479982).
7.
CarpenterB. W.DiemS. (2013). Talking Race: Facilitating Critical Conversations in Educational Leadership Preparation Programs. Journal of School Leadership, 23(6), 902-931.
8.
Council of Chief State School Officers. (2008). Educational leadership policy standards: ISLLC 2008. Available from http://www.ccsso.org/
9.
CreswellJ. W. (2002). Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
10.
DantleyM. E. (2002). Uprooting and replacing positivism, the melting pot, multiculturalism, and other important notions in educational leadership through an African American perspective. Education and Urban Society, 34, 334-352.
11.
FischerF. (2003). Beyond empiricism: Policy analysis as deliberative practice. In HajerM. A.WagenaarH. (Eds.), Deliberative policy analysis: Understanding governance in the network society (pp. 209-227). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
12.
HajerM. A. (1995). The politics of environmental discourse: Ecological modernization and the policy process. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
13.
HajerM. A. (2003). A frame in the fields: Policymaking and the reinvention of politics. In HajerM. A.WagenaarH. (Eds.), Deliberative policy analysis: Understanding governance in the network society (pp. 88-112). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
14.
HajerM. A. (2006). Doing discourse analysis: Coalitions, practices, meaning. In van den BrinkM.MetzeT. (Eds.), Words matter in policy and planning: Discourse theory and method in the social science (pp. 65-74). Utrecht: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap.
15.
HajerM. A.WagenaarH. (Eds.). (2003). Deliberative policy analysis: Understanding governance in the network society. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
16.
HawleyW.JamesR. (2010). Diversity-responsive school leadership. UCEA Review, 52(3), 1-5.
17.
Jean-MarieG. (2010). “Fire in the belly”: Igniting a social justice discourse in learning environments of leadership preparation. In ToomsA. K.BoskeC. (Eds.), Bridge leadership, connecting educational leadership and social justice to improve schools (pp. 97-124). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
18.
Jean-MarieG.NormoreA.BrooksJ. S. (2009). Leadership for social justice: Preparing 21st century school leaders for a new social order. Journal of Research on Leadership in Education, 4, 1-31.
19.
Ladson-BillingsG. (2011). Is meeting the diverse needs of all students possible?Kappa Delta Pi Record, 47(supp1. 1), 13-15.
20.
LeeC. D. (2003). Why we need to re-think race and ethnicity in educational research. Educational Researcher, 32(5), 3-5.
21.
LópezG. R. (2003). The (racially neutral) politics of education: A critical race theory perspective. Educational Administration Quarterly, 39, 68-94.
22.
MarshallC.OlivaM. (2006). Leadership for social justice: Making revolutions in education. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
23.
MathisW. J.WelnerK. G. (2010). Assessing the research base for a blueprint for reform. In MathisW.WelnerK. (Eds.). The Obama education blueprint: Researchers examine the evidence (pp. 1-8). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Inc.
24.
McKenzieK.ChristmanD.HernandezF.FierroE.CapperC.DantleyM.. . . ScheurichJ. (2008). Educating leaders for social justice: A design for a comprehensive, social justice leadership preparation program. Educational Administration Quarterly, 44, 111-138.
25.
MurphyJ. (2005). Unpacking the foundations of ISLLC standards and addressing concerns in the academic community. Educational Administration Quarterly, 41, 154-191.
26.
National Policy Board for Educational Administration. (2011, November). Educational leadership program standards: Building level. Available from http://www.ncate.org/
27.
NogueraP. A.WellsL. (2011). The politics of school reform: A broader and bolder approach to Newark. Berkeley Review of Education, 2, 5-25.
28.
OrfieldG.KusceraJ.Siegel-HawleyG. (2012). E pluribus . . . separation: Deepening double segregation for more students. Los Angeles, CA: The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles.
29.
ParkerL.ShapiroJ. (1992). Where is the discussion in educational administration programs? Graduate student voices addressing an omission in their preparation. Journal of School Leadership, 2, 7-33.
RivziF.LingardB. (2010). Globalizing education policy. New York, NY: Routledge.
32.
SchofieldJ. W. (2010). International evidence on ability grouping with curriculum differentiation and the achievement gap in secondary schools. Teachers College Record, 112, 1490-1526.
33.
TheoharisG. (2007). Social justice educational leaders and resistance: Toward a theory of social justice leadership. Educational Administration Quarterly, 43, 221-258.
34.
TheoharisG. (2009). The school leaders our children deserve: Seven keys to equity, social justice, and school reform. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
35.
TheoharisG. (2010). Sustaining social justice: Strategies urban principals develop to advance justice and equity while facing resistance. International Journal of Urban Educational Leadership, 4, 92-110.
36.
TillmanL. C. (2004). (Un)intended consequences? The impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision on the employment status of black educators. Education and Urban Society, 36, 280-303.
37.
U.S. Department of Education. (2010). A Blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Arlington, VA: Author.
38.
ValenciaR. R. (1997). The evolution of deficit thinking: Educational thought and practice. London, England: Falmer Press.
39.
YoungM. D.LaibleJ. (2000). White racism, antiracism, and school leader preparation. Journal of School Leadership, 10, 374-415.
40.
YoungM. D.LópezG. D. (2008). Putting alternative perspectives to work in the politics of education. In SamierE. A.StanleyA. G. (Eds.), Political approaches to educational administration leadership (pp. 155-172). New York, NY: Routledge.
