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Published:2009
Catherine A. Lugg, 2009., Bridge Leadership: Connecting Educational Leadership and Social Justice to Improve Schools, Autumn K. Toons, Boska Christa
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Christa Boske’s chapter invited the reader to bridge personal selves with a deeper understanding of what it means to fight the good fight. Leading for social justice is more than considering the influence of larger contexts and complaining about assumptions made. Fighting the good fight suggests school leaders seize opportunities to promote positive societal trends that begin from within and transcend throughout school practices.
In the next chapter, Catherine Lugg presents herself as a member of the tail-end boomer and mid-era gay rights generation. Her scholarly assumptions regarding the multidimensional analyses of educational policy caused friction with her older colleagues. Catherine Lugg’s authentic voice interplays with both primary and secondary sources in a gracious effort to document her personal history and courage to address LGBTQ issues with the historical.
