Chapter 10: Expanding the Radius of Concern and Cultivating Habits of Hope: A Meditation on Educational Leadership for Sustainable Ethics in the Anthropocene

Towards what purpose should educational leadership be directed under circumstances of significant social and cultural upheaval due to environmental degradation, food insecurity, and warring within and across nation states? How should institutions of education be led, given contemporary conditions of continued economic, ecological, and political precarity on a global scale? How to uphold principles of equity and the protection of human rights with enduring and in some cases escalating instances of mistreatment and violence on the basis of race, religion, and other markers of difference? A connective question ensues: With what consequence is educational leadership undertaken in the face of apocalyptic narratives that prey as much on the social as they do the ecological and biological nervous systems?