Called to Sankofa

Leading In, Through and Beyond Disaster—A Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Tammie M. Causey-Konaté, Margaret Montgomery-Richard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

126 Seiten

2018 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-2995-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Tammie M. Causey-Konate is Deputy Director of the Southeast Comprehensive Center and a Senior Technical Assistant Consultant at American Institutes for Research. Previously, she served as a tenured associate professor of educational administration at the University of New Orleans where she earned her Ph.D. Margaret Montgomery-Richard is principal of DMM & Associates, LLC, a Louisiana-based organization that specializes in the delivery of technical assistance and other services at the local level. This former Chancellor of the Louisana Technical College earned her Ph.D. in educational administration at the University of New Orleans.

Norman C. Francis: Foreword: Mending a City of Broken Hearts and Lost Treasures – Tammie M. Causey-Konaté: Preface – Matthew Causey: Efforts to Return to Normalcy: Lessons Learned and Value Added in the Aftermath of Katrina – Tammie M. Causey-Konaté: Sankofa Crossing: To Katrina and Back – Margaret Montgomery-Richard: Leading In, Through and Beyond Disaster: An African American Woman’s Account of Leadership Pre- and Post-Katrina – Toya Barnes-Teamer: Beyond Disaster: The Journey of an African-American Woman’s Leadership Experience at a Two-Year Postsecondary Institution and a Historically Black University – Torin T. Sanders: Orleans Parish School Board Politics and Policy Post-Katrina – Darlene Morgan Brown: A Community of Survivors – Elenora Mackey Cushenberry: When Absence Is Sufficient – Tammie M. Causey-Konaté: A Storm by Any Other Name – About the Editors – About the Contributors.

“A prolific discussion of crisis due to the devastation and disaster faced by a city that resides at the heart of the South. A must-read for leaders of communities and education entities.”—Beth Howard-Brown, Counselor Education Professor, South Carolina State University; Director, American Institutes for Research

“Anyone who aspires to effective and visionary leadership in education—or other fields—in these critical times will benefit from the powerful wisdom, grit and moral courage in the lessons these survivors of Hurricane Katrina learned. From the imaginative culturally grounded research methodology to the heart-wrenching personal examples of leading through and beyond trauma and disaster, this volume is an absolutely indispensable gift of scholarship and education practice.”—Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University; Past president, The American Educational Research Association

Erscheinungsdatum	09.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Black Studies and Critical Thinking ; 109
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Rochelle Brock, Cynthia B. Dillard
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	191 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
Schlagworte	Account • African • americans • Beyond • Bode • Brock • called • Causey • Cynthia • Dillard • Disaster—A • Education • Katrina • Konate • leading • Margaret • Montgomery • narrative • Orleans • Post • Richard • Rochelle • Sankofa • Sarah • Tammie • through
ISBN-10	1-4331-2995-7 / 1433129957
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-2995-7 / 9781433129957
Zustand	Neuware