| Title: |
Educative leadership in multicultural contexts: refining policies, practices and theory building. |
| Authors: |
Macpherson, Reynold J. S. |
| Source: |
Multicultural Education Review; Dec2025, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p357-375, 19p |
| Subject Terms: |
EDUCATIONAL leadership; SOCIAL justice; EQUALITY; PLURALISM; CULTURAL competence; POLICY sciences |
| Geographic Terms: |
AUSTRALIA |
| Abstract: |
This study examines how educative leadership theories have evolved in multicultural contexts, beginning with developments in Australia in the 1990s and extending to international trends. Using a philosophical methodology informed by critical multiculturalism and non-foundational epistemology, it analyses and refines leadership theories that promote equity, inclusion, and epistemic pluralism. The study finds that policies in Australia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union are shaped by shared moral commitments to social justice, pluralism, democracy, and cosmopolitanism. Yet persistent inequities and nationalist resistance reveal the need for continued ethical leadership and policy innovation. The study proposes a contextually adaptive model of educative leadership—drawing on transformative, distributed, instructional, ethical, adaptive, and culturally responsive approaches—grounded in pragmatic holism to address the complexities of diverse educational environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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