Leadership & Inclusion: Promoting Social Justice in Education

This essay explores the discrete strategies employed by social leaders to foster social justice, including positioning oneself, maintaining a low profile, projecting credibility, and nurturing relationships. It addresses the struggles faced by administrators and educators in promoting inclusion and so...Read More

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Question 1.
What do you think of the discrete strategies that social leaders imply?
The discrete strategies that are used by the social leaders who aims social justice in
their participants by implying these strategies to lead a team discreetly and maintain
coherence with the participants. The strategies are mentioned as follows:
 Positioning oneself:
The leader must be capable enough to take step for the team members
collectively as a whole and should mention roles according to the calibre of
the team members (Shamir &Shamir,2018). The team members should
consider their leader as a role model. Leaders should be helpful and must be
able to take the responsibility of the task.
 Keeping low profile:
The leader must be not draw all attention to himself, he should give equal
opportunity to each participants. There must be equal status provided to
members. The leader must not take all credits to himself for the performance;
rather he should share the success with the team.
 Projecting credibility:
The leader must provide the credibility of the efforts to the participants of the
team according to the efforts taken by them.
 Nurturing relationship:
The leader must nurture the relationship among the participants including
himself.

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 Takes action:
He should take responsibility of the task done by the team and guide them in
the right direction
 Align priorities.
Leader should align the priorities according to the calibre of the participants.
Question 2
What do you think of the struggles that await administrators and educators who
promote inclusion and social justice in their schools?
The struggles that awaits the administrators and educators who promote inclusion and social
justice are due to the cultural barriers that they face in the organization, lack of
communication, difference in perspectives (Ryan & Tuters 2017). The leaders may face the
problems regarding inflexible bureaucracies, harmful government policies and hostile
colleagues could hamper the ideas of inclusion and pose a challenge to the educators who
promote inclusion.
Question 3
Are there any other areas not mentioned in the last reading that administrators of
diverse schools might advocate for?
The other areas that are not mentioned in the article, which promotes diverse school should
advocate for are the steps or measures that could be taken to remove the gap in the
communication. The face-to-face conversation is only possible when there is people to bridge
the gap between the diverse cultures or they belong to the same background (Meagher, 2015).
This is done to remove the cultural barriers and promote inclusion of varied personalities in a

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single group. The newsletters, the post might spread awareness but in order to maintain the
better communication and adopt the various cultures there must be proper communication.
Question4
Are there any other issues that you would like to address?
The other issues that it would like to address in the case of inclusion and leadership is that if
there is a merge of cultures in an organization (De Matthews & Mawhinney,2014). This will
forward the opinions of different perspectives about the project or the situation that is
proposed or arise. The other issues that can be addressed in this case are discrimination based
on caste, colour, religion and gender. Oppression of lower class people could be considered
one of major cases of issue that can be mentioned in the article. The lack of equity has
created a major gap in understanding the other people’s personality and created a gap
between two people with different culture or economic background. The bullying of the
person can also be considered as one of the major issue, which is caused due to
communication gap, and lack of equality. These few issues could be discussed in order to
propose better ways to eradicate the problems permanently.

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DeMatthews, D., & Mawhinney, H. (2014). Social justice leadership and inclusion:
Exploring challenges in an urban district struggling to address inequities. Educational
Administration Quarterly, 50(5), 844-881.
Meagher, K. (2015). Leaving no one behind?: Informal economies, economic inclusion and
islamic extremism in Nigeria. Journal of International Development, 27(6), 835-855.
Ryan, J. & Tuters, S. (2017). Picking a Hill To Die On: Discreet Activism,
Leadership and Social Justice in Education. Journal of Educational Administration 55
569-588.
Shamir, B., & Eilam-Shamir, G. (2018). “What’s your story?” A life-stories approach to
authentic leadership development. In Leadership Now: Reflections on the Legacy of
Boas Shamir(pp. 51-76). Emerald Publishing Limited.