Keywords:
School leadership, Leadership for social justice, Social justice, Education for social justice, Fair schools.Copyright (c) 2015 Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social (RIEJS)
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Abstract
Based on Social Justice concept understood as Redistribution, Recognition and Representation (the three Rs), in this article is justified the necessity of schools that work for social justice are, concurrently, schools that broach issues and approaches an education in social justice, and schools with an organization and a fair inner functioning (schools for social justice). Since there, it is focused from own and others' researches how these schools are.
Principals´ behaviours and values who are leading those schools is the subject of the second part of the text: Thus, issues such as the significance of dreaming, of working for cultural change from school, to foster the development are discussed of all members of the school community, to promote fair teaching and learning and in social justice, to develop the creation of professional learning communities, to nurturing collaboration between school and family, and expand the social capital students.