Transforming Education and Leadership
Promoting Equity, Learning, and Mental Health Across Educational Sectors
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2026
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-1-80686-778-3 (ISBN)
Description
In a world where equity is increasingly contested,Transforming Education and Leadership offers a bold and timely intervention. This groundbreaking volume brings together voices from across continents and disciplines to illuminate how equity is not just an ideal, but a lived, practiced, and transformative force.
Spanning diverse contexts, from classrooms in Asia and healthcare systems in Africa to digital spaces in North America, this volume explores how equity is enacted in real-world educational settings. Chapters delve into urgent issues such as gender justice, the ethical use of AI, language and identity, violence, and inclusive education. Through qualitative, narrative, ethnographic, digital, and quantitative methodologies, contributors reveal how equity can serve as both a conceptual lens and a methodological tool for reimagining leadership and education.
Drawing from education, sociology, psychology, gender studies, economics, applied linguistics, and special education, this is a vital resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, offering concrete examples of how equity is being advanced globally.
Spanning diverse contexts, from classrooms in Asia and healthcare systems in Africa to digital spaces in North America, this volume explores how equity is enacted in real-world educational settings. Chapters delve into urgent issues such as gender justice, the ethical use of AI, language and identity, violence, and inclusive education. Through qualitative, narrative, ethnographic, digital, and quantitative methodologies, contributors reveal how equity can serve as both a conceptual lens and a methodological tool for reimagining leadership and education.
Drawing from education, sociology, psychology, gender studies, economics, applied linguistics, and special education, this is a vital resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, offering concrete examples of how equity is being advanced globally.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80686-778-3 (9781806867783)
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Person
Awad Ibrahim is Full Professor, Vice-Provost, Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Excellence and holder of the Air Canada Professorship on Anti-Racism at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a curriculum theorist with special interest in Black thought, social justice, ethnography, Hip-Hop and youth culture, and continental and diasporic African identities.
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction: Leading in a Time of Precarity: EDI, Access(Ability), Mental Health, AI and the Praxis of Critically Sustaining Leadership; Awad Ibrahim
Chapter 2. Access to Quality Education: A Study on How the Tertiary Education System of Mauritius and South Africa Reflects this Goal; Roshni Karishma Ramnarain
Chapter 3. "I Felt Like I Was Under Siege": Women Academic Leaders' Journeys Through a Crisis; Linda Ronnie and Marieta Du Plessis
Chapter 4. Amplifying Student Voices: Understanding Gender-Based Violence through Digital Storytelling at the University of the Western Cape; Selina Palm and Naythan Kayser
I am Everything They Say I am Not... a poem by Aisha Salim
Chapter 5. Exploring the Potential of AI Chatbots in the Promotion of Mental Health at South African Universities; Matete Madiba, Faeza Khan, and Naythan Kayser
Chapter 6. Language Use as a Tool for the Recognition of Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education in Africa; Russell H Kaschula and Sunrise Dhlamini
Chapter 7. A Corpus-Based Study of Cultural Content in Reading and Writing 1-4 of New Horizon College English (4th Edition); Yongzhi Liu and Yuchen Xie
Chapter 8. Empowering Inclusiveness of SEN Support Systems for Young SEN Learners Through Digital Skills at Higher Education; Simi Sonatun-Seegoolam and Diroubinee Mauree-Narrainen
Chapter 9. Instructional Coaching: Experiences, Challenges and Perspectives from One Ontario School District; Kien Nam Luu
Chapter 10. Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Education in an Island Economy; Vilesh Ray Seebaruth, Boopendra Seetanah, and Oomesh Gukhool
New York Times Bestseller... a poem by Aisha Salim
Chapter 2. Access to Quality Education: A Study on How the Tertiary Education System of Mauritius and South Africa Reflects this Goal; Roshni Karishma Ramnarain
Chapter 3. "I Felt Like I Was Under Siege": Women Academic Leaders' Journeys Through a Crisis; Linda Ronnie and Marieta Du Plessis
Chapter 4. Amplifying Student Voices: Understanding Gender-Based Violence through Digital Storytelling at the University of the Western Cape; Selina Palm and Naythan Kayser
I am Everything They Say I am Not... a poem by Aisha Salim
Chapter 5. Exploring the Potential of AI Chatbots in the Promotion of Mental Health at South African Universities; Matete Madiba, Faeza Khan, and Naythan Kayser
Chapter 6. Language Use as a Tool for the Recognition of Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education in Africa; Russell H Kaschula and Sunrise Dhlamini
Chapter 7. A Corpus-Based Study of Cultural Content in Reading and Writing 1-4 of New Horizon College English (4th Edition); Yongzhi Liu and Yuchen Xie
Chapter 8. Empowering Inclusiveness of SEN Support Systems for Young SEN Learners Through Digital Skills at Higher Education; Simi Sonatun-Seegoolam and Diroubinee Mauree-Narrainen
Chapter 9. Instructional Coaching: Experiences, Challenges and Perspectives from One Ontario School District; Kien Nam Luu
Chapter 10. Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Education in an Island Economy; Vilesh Ray Seebaruth, Boopendra Seetanah, and Oomesh Gukhool
New York Times Bestseller... a poem by Aisha Salim