Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Educational Leadership - Culturally Responsive Leadership

Virginia Commonwealth University

The M.Ed. in Educational Leadership with a concentration in culturally responsive leadership is a 30 credit-hour program. The purpose of the concentration is to prepare school and community leaders with foundational theory, research and skills related to culturally responsive and community-based leadership. The curriculum will focus on leadership and understanding and mitigating power imbalances related to race, ethnicity, culture and/or class, as well as establishing policies and practices that nurture an anti-racist organizational climate. Additional topics include dimensions of human diversity, community and youth-based activism and praxis immigration and adaptation gender and power ableism children and youth social inclusion health disparities poverty racism colonization and inequality. Students will exit the program prepared to enact culturally responsive and sustaining leadership approaches in K12 schools and school-supporting organizations

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