Presentation
Taking a selfie: Examining identity in educational leadership preparation programs
University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Annual Convention, Session: Leader Identity and Social Justice for Students
(2016)
Abstract
This paper responds to the call for utilizing interdisciplinary research toward the goal of achieving the promise of equal educational opportunity by using the linguistics theory of social semiotics to improve school leadership for social justice. This study seeks to problematize the preparation of social justice leaders by analyzing a curriculum-based intervention in which doctoral students used selfies to communicate their leadership identities. Participants engaged in discourses surrounding identities and tensions between what was intended and what was perceived. Â Images and audience perceptions were analyzed through a social semiotics frame. This theoretical analysis provides discourses surrounding the experimentation with new forms of curriculum-based interventions in social justice preparation contexts.
Keywords
- Educational Leadership
Disciplines
Publication Date
November, 2016
Location
Detroit, MI
Citation Information
T A Long, Katherine Lewis and M O'Malley. "Taking a selfie: Examining identity in educational leadership preparation programs" University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Annual Convention, Session: Leader Identity and Social Justice for Students (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/katherine-lewis/14/