Name: Called to Sankofa: Leading in, Through and Beyond Disaster-A Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina new Orleans (Black Studies and Critical Thinking) (en Inglés)
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Called to Sankofa: Leading in, Through and Beyond Disaster-A Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina new Orleans (Black Studies and Critical Thinking) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

119

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781433154089

Categorías

Organización y gestión educativa

Called to Sankofa: Leading in, Through and Beyond Disaster-A Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina new Orleans (Black Studies and Critical Thinking) (en Inglés)

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Called to Sankofa is a collection of Hurricane Katrina survival stories by African American education leaders in New Orleans. It draws upon the West African concept, Sankofa, which loosely translates to "return to the source and fetch." The griots, through their stories, fetch salvageable and knowledge-laden valuables linked to their resilience and rebuilding efforts. Thus, the Sankofa concept serves as a lens for examining leadership in the aftermath of disaster; it serves as an intense magnifier and illuminator of lessons considered relevant and profoundly valuable to guide one’s understanding of how to lead in, through and beyond disaster. Past experiences yield teachable moments. The lessons excerpted from these moments reveal the sources from which the leaders draw the resilience to recover from trauma, the vision to guide others, the courage to challenge the status quo, the imagination to make a way where there is none and the stamina to press beyond peril toward an unpromised future. Called to Sankofa rejects the assumption that "all was broken" in education―either before or due to Katrina, and through the storytellers, we are reminded that to rebuild things better than before, one must take stock of, extract meaning from and be guided by what constituted the "before." Hence, Called to Sankofa documents the leaders’ acts of resilience, optimism, strength, passion and resolve and details the support structures and sources of inspiration that enabled within them the capacity to adapt to the chaotic and uncertain environments and to be moved to action and leadership.