Educational Leadership and Louis Farrakhan
By (author) Abul Pitre
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Publication date:
08 February 2017Length of book:
100 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475833102
Drawing from Louis Farrakhan’s decades of teaching on education and leadership this volume brings his ideas into the educational leadership discourse. It explores through a critical framework the purpose of education disclosing how those in powerful positions have shaped educational policy to use schools and universities for their benefit. The book inspires educational leaders to serve the best interest of those under their leadership. In a spiritual tone it discusses the purpose of education, leadership as love, servant leadership, transformative leadership, and futuristic leadership. In the 21st century, leadership for social justice has become a major theme and in this volume Louis Farrakhan’s many years of working for equal justice on behalf of historically underserved groups is applied to the practice of educational leadership in K-12 and higher education.
This book gives a very powerful outlook on the Black experience in education. Each chapter's reflection on the different types of leadership theories and how they affect historically underserved groups in the educational system is mind blowing and enlightening at the same time. It informs us that change must happen, but it begins with the acknowledgement of these serious issues. Reading Louis Farrakhan's purpose of education will cause its readers to think about the future of education. Pitre uses a concept coined critical black pedagogy to help educational leaders in public school and university settings as a foundational hinge to catapult emancipatory thinking.