1st Edition

Culturally Relevant Schools Creating Positive Workplace Relationships and Preventing Intergroup Differences

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    202 Pages
    by Routledge

    The authors provide teachers and school leaders concrete suggestions to address workplace relationships; to respond to intergroup conflict; to create positive exchanges among different ethnic groups of teachers; and to create a strategic process to address diversity issues.

    Foreword by William Harvey Acknowledgments Part I: Workplace relationships and intergroup differences Chapter 1 Performance pressures and automatic notice Chapter 2 Intergroup differences and group boundaries: Implications for inclusive schools Chapter 3 Role entrapment and the glass ceiling Part II: Leadership challenges in a diverse workplace: Understanding intergroup differences to create inclusive schools Chapter 4 Principals' perceptions of intergroup conflict: Implications for creating inclusive schools Chapter 5 African American leaders' perceptions of intergroup conflict Chapter 6 Diversity Self-Efficacy: Concluding thoughts Part III: Leadership Using a Strategic Process Chapter 7 Leadership in diverse contexts: Towards a theoretical framework Chapter 8 Strategic Process to Develop Diversity Plans for Schools Appendices References

    Biography

    Jean A. Madsen is Associate Professor, Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, Texas A&M University.
    Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University.