Overview

This book is the second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership. This book examines the uniqueness of the urban school and those in leadership roles that affect urban students and schools.

Focus Areas

It examines community, district, school, and teacher leadership influencing urban schools. This edition explores conceptualizations of urban ecologies as well as other critical geographies and how these shape understandings in educational contexts.

Contributions

Contributions for this edition focused on areas that examined social, technological, international, and other processes with intersections of issues of race, class, and gender, power, politics, and capital, and how they influence urban educational leadership.

Theories and Discourses

We also included place and space-based theories and discourses that influence urban realities, which include (but are not limited to): networks, assemblages, safe/brave space, placemaking, flow, thirdspace, homeplace, and urbanormativity.