The 20th-Year Anniversary of Critical Race Theory in Education: Implications for Leading to Eliminate Racism

Intersectionality refers to how race, sexuality, identity, gender, neurodiversity, and socio-economic status interconnect and consequently have a greater impact on the life of an individual or group.

“Finally, an important consideration in most educational contexts is Tenet 6: Inter -sectionality, which refers to how race, sexuality, identity, gender, neurodiversity, and socio-economic status interconnect and consequently have a greater impact on the life of an individual or group of individuals.”

Capper's (2015) review of critical race theory led to six interrelated tenets of education leadership, three of which support understanding the transformative approach: counter storytelling and majoritarian narratives, interest convergence, and intersectionality.

“Moreover, Leithwood (2021) discussed Capper's (2015) review of critical race theory (CRT), which led to six interrelated tenets of education leadership, three of which support understanding the transformative approach: 'Tenet 3: Counter storytelling and majoritarian narratives,' 'Tenet 4: Interest convergence,' and 'Tenet 6: Intersectionality' (Leithwood, 2021, p. 27).”

Alignment between goals to improve education for minoritized and White students would help foster an acceptance of slow, incremental equity gains.

“Through Tenet 4, Capper (2015) explained how alignment between goals to improve education for minoritized and White students would help 'foster an acceptance of slow, incremental equity gains' (p. 815); thus manipulating the education system for the better by implementing change that is beneficial to all students, where previous practice may only have benefited White students.”

Counternarratives present the perspective of the non-White group in depicting history and issues of racism, while majoritarian narratives serve to maintain White privilege or the status quo by reframing stories of racial inequities.

“Capper (2015) compared counternarratives with majoritarian narratives as the former presenting the perspective of the non-White group in depicting history and issues of racism, while the latter serves to maintain White privilege, or the status quo, by reframing stories of racial inequities.”

Attention to interconnectedness, intersectionality, adaptability, respect, and responsibility will lead to transformative education leadership practices.

“In addition to these practices, attention to interconnectedness, intersectionality, adaptability, respect, and responsibility will lead to transformative education leadership practices (Capper, 2015; Wane et al., 2022).”