Storying Leadership for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

This book positions the concept of Storying as integral to leadership in qualitative research, drawing on a wide range of studies and perspectives by diverse, minoritized leaders. Presenting stories of leadership, resistance, diversity, and cultural wealth, these chapters highlight "problems of practice" from Latinx, Black, and BIPOC administrators, special education teachers, EOP community college students, and parents, including those undocumented. Crucially, the book showcases where "leadership in place" is exemplified through storying, arguing that "storying" is more empowering in qualitative research since it acknowledges the identities and reflexivity of both the researcher and the researched. This significant aspect of research methodology not only addresses cultural historicity but also fosters authentic representations of participant identities and lived experiences. The chapters directly and innovatively address these power dynamics and show how they are re-negotiated within spaces that are culturally relevant, socially situated, and historically constructed. They demonstrate how, through storying, the limits of textual interpretations can be traversed. This unique volume contributes to the growing literature on the largest minority group in the United States and is highly relevant to those with interests in educational leadership, race and ethnicity, research methods, and qualitative research.

Ambika Gopal Raj is Professor of Storying and Pedagogy in Educational Leadership in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Socorro Orozco is Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education and STEM Leadership in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Part 1: Theorizing Storying as Empowering Methodology 1. Storying Conceptions of Leadership 2. Teaching and Researching with Storying: An Epistemic Quest 3. They know that we are powerful: Place, Ways of Knowing, and Leadership 4. Parables of Resilience: Storying Black Women Early Childhood Leaders' Lived Experiences 5. Innovating Institutions: Writing New Stories of Educational Leadership 6. "What's wrong with being Gay?": Queer Storying in Educational Leadership Part 2: Storying Practices of Culturally Situated Leadership 7. Latin American Leader-Educators Counterstorying for Social Justice for Designated English Learners 8. Storying Leadership Through Re/Creating Hidden Structures: Educational Journey Maps and Un/Settling Counter Narratives 9. Storying as Leadership: Multilingual Parents as Authors and Community Leaders 10. Voices of a Silenced Community: Testimonios of Undocumented Parents of Young Children 11. Emerging Mexican American/Chicano Leadership Through Perseverance, Ganas y Corazón 12. Changing the Terms of Our Lease: Positionality, Identity, and Renegotiating Space Part 3: Empowering Leadership Through Storying 13. The Legacy of Dean Penny: Testimonios of Multi-Generational Women Leaders 14. Storying as an Empowering Pedagogy in Leadership Preparation Programs 15. Storying the Experiences of Black Mothers to Advance Maternal Health 16. A Framework for Storying Leadership: A Conversation between colleagues