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The Educational Leader Without Borders: The Conceptual Frame

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This chapter examines the roles of the educational leader without borders (ELWB) and the connections these leaders have to humanity in the lives of children and their families through the schooling process. The relationship between social justice complexities and global schooling practices that define education as a basic human right are explored through the field of education, as well, the social science perspective offered by Nancy Fraser’s three dimensional lenses of economic, cultural and political that leads to participatory parity as social justice. Ten vignettes written by thirteen scholars from a variety of global schooling experiences document children’s stories written in authentic contextual settings from Nigeria, Thailand, Iraq, Haiti, Native American Tribes, American Latinos and U.S. poverty among school age children. These vignettes portray the human conditions of schooling world-wide that the educational leader without borders must learn.

For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment;

For the Nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and,

For the world, it is the path to peace—for it is education that places reason over force.

Former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson

No Author 2012, October 22, p. 33.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2014/0923/Record-number-of-homeless-children-enrolled-in-US-public-schools-video September 23, 2014.

  2. 2.

    New UIS data show that 58 million children roughly between the ages of 6 and 11 years are out of school, with barely any change since 2007. According to the new paper released by the UIS and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, around 43 % of those out of school—or 15 million girls and 10 million boys—will probably never set foot in a classroom if current trends continue.

    The lack of progress is largely due to high population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, now home to more than 30 million out-of-school children. Most of these children will never start school and those who do are at risk of dropping out. Across the region, more than one in three children who started school in 2012 will leave before reaching the last grade of primary, according to UIS data. June 26, 2014. Retrieved from http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/reaching-oosc.aspx.

  3. 3.

    Dr. Ayeni Abiodun Olumide.

  4. 4.

    Dr. Jean-Pierre R. Bayard and Dr. Etzer France.

  5. 5.

    Dr. Jean Crowder and Dr. Kimberly Gordon Biddle.

  6. 6.

    Dr. Jon Reyhner.

  7. 7.

    Dr. Concha Delgado Gaitan.

  8. 8.

    Ms. Katie Goodwin and Dr. Catherine Medina.

  9. 9.

    Dr. Okpete R. Kanu.

  10. 10.

    Dr. Daniel Eadens.

  11. 11.

    Dr. Melanie C. Brooks.

  12. 12.

    Dr. Sandra Fox Reprint permission from the National Association for Bilingual Education's NABE Perspective, May–June, 2013. http://www2.nau.edu/~jar/NABE/Fox.pdf.

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