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This book offers educational leaders another tool that, if they are courageous enough to use, transcends the tried-and-true processes and procedures that have typically grounded the educational leader’s performance. This book offers educational leaders the opportunity to use critical spirituality as a practice to wage war against the miseducation of so many of the nation’s children and youth. The book demands attention be paid to the societal issues that impact what happens in schools and argues that the intellectual work in the schoolhouse must prepare students to create strategies to combat these issues and challenges. The book can be used in advanced courses in educational leadership from multiple perspectives, including contemporary issues, social foundations, social justice, spirituality, and ethics

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"""Michael Dantley lovingly and firmly calls on scholars and practitioners in educational leadership to dig deeper in personal agency to redefine their work for greater impact. To support that 'calling,' he guides them toward a deeper examination of critical spirituality and its power to transform educational leaders."" Mark Anthony Gooden, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Professor in Educational Leadership, Director, Endeavor Antiracist & Restorative Leadership Initiative, Chair, Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University ""As we continue to live through this Dark Night of the Soul in so many areas of our lives, it is a true gift to have a text like this to enter our space to speak life to us in the field of educational leadership and beyond. Dr. Dantley has gifted us a blessing, a balm in Gilead through his words and ideas in these six chapters. Afterall six is the number of soul integration."" Judy A. Alston, Chair and Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Miami University ""In these times of overwhelming uncertainty, Leading with a Critical Spirit urges educational leaders to move away from technical managerial approaches to leadership and begin to bring their whole selves into the work of leading the field. Now we see mind, body, and spirit as essential elements of educational innovation, reform, and leadership."" Gloria Ladson-Billings, Emerita, FBA Immediate Past President, National Academy of Education Fellow, The British Academy Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, American Educational Research Association"

"""As we continue to live through this Dark Night of the Soul in so many areas of our lives, it is a true gift to have a text like this to enter our space to speak life to us in the field of educational leadership and beyond. Dr. Dantley has gifted us a blessing, a balm in Gilead through his words and ideas in these six chapters. Afterall six is the number of soul integration."" Judy A. Alston, Chair and Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Miami University ""Michael Dantley lovingly and firmly calls on scholars and practitioners in educational leadership to dig deeper in personal agency to redefine their work for greater impact. To support that 'calling,' he guides them toward a deeper examination of critical spirituality and its power to transform educational leaders."" Mark Anthony Gooden, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Professor in Educational Leadership, Director, Endeavor Antiracist & Restorative Leadership Initiative, Chair, Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University ""In these times of overwhelming uncertainty, Leading with a Critical Spirit urges educational leaders to move away from technical managerial approaches to leadership and begin to bring their whole selves into the work of leading the field. Now we see mind, body, and spirit as essential elements of educational innovation, reform, and leadership."" Gloria Ladson-Billings, Emerita, FBA Immediate Past President, National Academy of Education Fellow, The British Academy Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, American Educational Research Association"

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Dr. Michael E. Dantley is the recently retired Dean of the College of Education, Health and Society and Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His research focuses on leadership, critical spirituality, and social justice especially leadership in urban school contexts.

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