Transformative Leadership and Its Intersection with Cornel West’s Interpretation of Prophetic Spirituality

Transformative educational leadership portends, by the implication of its name, a substantive change in the very definition and implementation of traditional school leadership. It assumes an oppositional stance to the hegemonic forms of school leadership and promises a reformed, if indeed not a totally reconstructed, definition of this social construction. Implied in any notion of transformative leadership is the exchanging of some new theoretical frames and practices for the more orthodox and profession framing ones that have been touted as the fundamental grounding upon which educational leadership has been constructed.