Justice, Public Scholarship, and Improvement Inquiry in the Practice of Educational Leadership

This chapter organically troubles justice, as a means to explore public scholarship within authentic contexts, in which interventions are implemented. The authors of this work focus on new principle preparation standards, as a means to “go-deeper” with public scholarship. Additionally, this chapter employs a frame of improvement inquiry to reveal how leadership practice in education has been driven by accountability imposed on leaders and the systems they lead. The chapter concludes with a proposal to consider a new frame for understanding and improving the practice of educational leaders within and across specific contexts.