Importance of Critical Literacy Skills in Educational Leadership

Running head: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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Introduction
The following paper attempts a discussion on the importance of the skills of the critical
leadership within the realm of the educational leadership as is practiced by the various educators
who have been present within the territorial boundaries of a country. The essay opens with the
discussion on the relationship that exists within the critical literary skills and the educational
leadership as demonstrated by the concerned person. The essay finally nears a conclusion with
the discussion on the ways in which the critical literary skills might be implemented within the
future job roles of the given person.
Importance of critical literacy skills in educational leadership
The term educational leadership defines the various processes aimed at the enlistment and
providing the required guidance to the various talents as well as the energies presented by the
parents, the student as well as their teachers in the achievement of the common goals in the field
of education. The term is often used to describe the activities implemented both at the school
levels as well as the college levels (Bussell, Hagman & Guder, 2017). The term educational
leadership encompasses the various leaders who have been observed to be dealing in the matters
presented within the boundaries of the schools, the colleges as well as the various universities
and the other institutions that bear relation to the educational activities. The practices of the
educational leadership tend to majorly impact the achievement of the students, the job
satisfaction that is derived from the teachers as well as the several other factors that play a role in
the improvement of the overall performances of the concerned educational institutions (Chason,
Loyet, Sorenson & Stoops, 2017). The researchers within the realm of educational leadership
tend to deal with the investigation on the methodology as well as the quality of the preparation
programs of the principals.

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The critical literacy of a person refers to one among the major perspectives that deal with
the providing of the information regarding the actions of thinking, researching and teaching. The
critical literacy of a person generally affects the information that is required for the work that is
done by the person (Correa, 2010). The critical literacy factor is observed to have been impacting
the knowledge and the perspectives of the concerned person in the ways related to the worldview
of the person as well as the daily activities undertaken by the person inn discussion. The factor of
the critical literacy is known to have been dealing with the issues related to the building of the
needed access in the fields of the various practices undertaken by the literates as well as the
access to the resources of the discourse (Hathaway, 2015). The implementation of the critical
literacy has been known to assist the reader in the process of the interpretation of the given texts
in a setting that differs in terms of the cultural as well as the environmental settings (Davis,
2013). These skills further help the concerned student or the educator in the deconstruction of the
given texts in an active manner.
Future study and employment in India
The study of the critical literary skills would help me immensely in my chosen work field
while being located in the Indian educational industry. The implementation of my knowledge on
the educational leadership as well as the skills of the critical literacy would help me in my
understanding of the factors related to the development of the literacy skills of the students who
have been studying at the various schools and other higher educational centers active within the
given country (Kim & Belcher, 2018). The practices of the educational leadership tend to
majorly impact the achievement of the students, the job satisfaction that is derived from the
teachers as well as the several other factors that play a role in the improvement of the overall
performances of the concerned educational institutions (Diakidoy, Ioannou & Christodoulou,