Power, Privilege, and Identity in Educational Leadership

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This course examines the relationship between power, privilege, and identity in educational leadership. Specifically, it aims to help understand how power shapes educators' and learners' identities, that is, the ways and the degree to which these identities intersect to influence teachers' teaching practices and students' learning outcomes. This course goes further to unpack various facets of power and privileges, earned and unearned, examining how they can be used to enhance student learning and build communities, as well as the ways in which they have been utilized to perpetuate inequities in schools and society at large.