Fighting the Good Fight: Narratives of the African American Principalship

Praise for Fighting the Good Fight: Narratives of the African American Principalship

Expanding the notion of the practitioner-scholar, this book places practitioners at the centre of theorising their own experiences and making sense of it. As a Black woman, former school administrator and educational leadership researcher and scholar, this book resonates with me. This volume and these powerful narratives of lived experiences of African Americans disrupts the dominance of Eurocentricity in educational leadership theorizing and practice and should be a must-read in principal qualification courses and educational leadership courses. Indeed, as Carrier and Griffen suggest, we must "appreciate the gift it can be to have an African American principal in any school."
~ ~Ann E. Lopez, PhD, Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education; Director, Centre for Leadership and Diversity, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

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