Critical spirituality: enhancing transformative leadership through critical theory and African American prophetic spirituality

In this essay I suggest that ‘critical spirituality’, an amalgamation of critical theory and African American prophetic spirituality can enhance the discourse of transformative educational leadership. I argue that this new theoretical interpretation can function to not only deconstruct asymmetrical relations of power that dominate the educational system but can also be instrumental in prescribing acts of reflective resistance purposed to bring about a radical reconstruction of schools.