Toward Social Justice

Abstract

This chapter asserts that transformative leadership is essential to educational organizations. The authors identify andragogical leadership as synonymous with transformative leadership, with critical attributes hinged upon activism, praxis, technology, and social justice supporting adult learning. The transformative leader can engage in dialogue with their learners/employees to facilitate critical consciousness through a constructivist framework and provide evidenced-based feedback. The orientation of this chapter focuses on what social justice is and why it is central to leadership, access and use of technology as a form of social justice, the essential role of dialogue and inquiry for the andragogical leader, where learning takes place, and the necessity of transformative leadership to move organizations further along the social justice continuum to enact change for the modern world. This chapter contributes to the knowledge base of transformative leadership as a promising vehicle to address the growing need for humane (expansive/accessible) learning spaces.