Teresa Wasonga

Professor, Educational Administration

Department

Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations (LEPF)

Teresa A. Wasonga is a Fulbright scholar and 2016 NIU Presidential Engagement Professor. She is also the recipient of the 2017 MU College of Education Alumni Outstanding Professional Achievement Award. She is co-founder of an all-girls boarding secondary school in her native country Kenya. The school educates indigent girls who would otherwise not access secondary education.

Research Interests

  • School leadership with a specific focus on democratic leadership, school improvement, and social justice
  • Institutional factors that determine success and/or failure in secondary schools in Kenya
  • Improvement science (IS) within networked improvement communities (NICs)

Education

  • Ed.D. – University of Missouri, Columbia
  • M.Ed. – Kenyatta University, Kenya
  • B.Ed. – University of Nairobi, Kenya

Recent Publications

  • Pierce, J. and Wasonga, T. A. (2016). Good enough for the richest and open to the poorest. Sango Publishing
  • Woestman, D. S., Wasonga, T. A. (2015). Destructive leadership behaviors and work place attitudes in schools. National Association of Secondary School Principals, 1-17.
  • Teresa A. Fisher , Teresa A. Wasonga , Grace Wambu (2015), Utilizing Student Voices to Enhance Academic Resilience in Kenya, in Christa Boske , Azadeh F. Osanloo (ed.) Living the Work: Promoting Social Justice and Equity Work in Schools around the World (Advances in Educational Administration, Volume 23) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.283 - 295
  • Wasonga, T. A. (2014). Social control and democratic community in schools. Journal of School Leadership, 24(6), 115-1176.
  • Wasonga, T. A. (2014). From perdition to performance. In C. Day and D. Gurr (Eds.). Leading schools successfully: Stories from the field (44-58). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Wasonga, T. A. (2013). Towards understanding ambivalence in educational policy in Kenya. Journal of East African Studies, 7(1), 21-39.
  • Wasonga, T. A. (2012). Perspectives on K-12 learning and teacher preparation in East Africa. In O. N. Ukpokodu and P. Ukpokodu (Eds.), Contemporary voices from the margin: African educators on African and American education (pp. 129-148). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Inc.
  • Wasonga, T. A. (2012). The silent minority: Invisible bridges among African immigrants in America. In C. Boske (Ed.), Educational leadership: Building bridges among ideas, schools, and nations (pp. 141-158). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Inc.
  • Wasonga, T. A., Mwita, B. M. (2012). Mitigating the impact of educational policies in rural Kenya. In C. Boske and S. Diem (Eds.), Global leadership for social Justice: Taking it from the field to practice (Vol. 14, pp. 3-20). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group publishing Limited.

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