Conclusion: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Post-Postmodern Purview

Hodgkinson, Christopher

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“…(p. 27). Therefore, it has been our aim to support school leaders in their practice (Spillane et al, in press), by informing them how to make choices in their leadership, and to refl ect on their choices and their role as administrators (Hodgkinson, 2003).…”

Section: Implications For Practicementioning

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Thinking while leading. Understanding school leaders' everyday thinking

Wassink¹

2019

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What do school leaders think while performing their jobs? What is the nature of these thinking processes? And what is their function, with regard to the day-to-day leadership in the school? These questions are central to the research reported in this book. Three approaches to studying the thinking processes of school leaders are explored. A naturalistic, interpretative research approach has been taken, to gain more insight in the “how” of daily school leadership. By giving tangible descriptions of real-life leadership situations, this book provides new insights in the dynamics of how school leaders think and act to deal with daily complexity in their schools.

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Section: Implications For Practicementioning

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Thinking while leading. Understanding school leaders' everyday thinking

Wassink¹

2019

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“…Now, as the world moves towards postmodernity (Crotty, 1998; Hodgkinson, 2003; Thornhill, 2000), the task is to redress this inherent problematic aspect of moral judgement. To this end, Wilber (2000a) proposes that there are two challenges.…”

Section: Moral Judgement In Contemporary Societymentioning

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Improving leadership by nurturing moral consciousness through structured self‐reflection

Branson

2007

Journal of Educational Admin

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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to report on research that explores the use of structured self‐reflection to nurture moral consciousness as a means of enhancing the moral leadership capacity of existing school principals.Design/methodology/approachGiven that this research focuses on each participant's subjective reality, the epistemology of pragmatic constructivism was chosen to guide this qualitative study supported by the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism. Furthermore, a case study was chosen as the appropriate orchestrating perspective and an opportunistic sample of six school principals formed the participants in this case study.FindingsData from this research support the view that the moral consciousness of each of the participating principals in this study was clearly enhanced by their experience of structured self‐reflection.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the demanding nature of structured self‐reflection this approach takes a considerable amount of time. Also, as the reflection process is a very personal experience, the amount of time taken will vary noticeably amongst the participants. In addition, the ethical implications in facilitating structured self‐reflection are an extremely important implication. Participants must be made fully aware of the nature of such an experience so that not only can they voluntarily choose not to participate but also that they avoid reflecting on past experiences that engender sadness or anxiety within them should they choose to participate.Practical implicationsGiven the strong moral expectations now demanded of contemporary leaders, which implies that this is not a natural trait, structured self‐reflection affords a clearly achievable means for nurturing a leader's moral consciousness as an essential step in their professional development in moral leadership.Originality/valueThe paper addresses the acknowledged blank spot in moral leadership research by providing a practical and effective way for positively influencing the leader's moral leadership development.

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“…It suggests that Chinese administrative discourse suffers from some of the limitations of Western theory in the middle of the twentieth century where scientific paradigms directed energy toward establishing law-like foundations for the field (Halpin, 1959). Greenfield torpedoed such fallacies in the 1970s and, more recently, Hodgkinson (1991Hodgkinson ( , 2003 has argued that leadership is more akin to moral philosophy than positivist science. We need to ask whether Chinese academics conceive of educational leadership as a science, although one student commented that "there are hardly any systematic educational leadership theories related to Chinese local context."…”

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Leadership and Intercultural Dynamics

Collard¹,

Wang²

2005

Journal of School Leadership

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This article explores issues related to the delivery of leadership training courses by Western universities in developing nations. It argues that past theories, including cross-cultural perspectives, are too limited to comprehend the complexity of the processes involved. Instead it posits a more dynamic concept of intercultural understanding as an explanatory framework. It also argues that the pedagogy employed is a more powerful instrument of change than subject content. This is illustrated through analysis of responses from 52 participants in a leadership training program conducted in China in 2002.

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Conclusion: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Post-Postmodern Purview

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Thinking while leading. Understanding school leaders' everyday thinking

Thinking while leading. Understanding school leaders' everyday thinking

Improving leadership by nurturing moral consciousness through structured self‐reflection

Leadership and Intercultural Dynamics

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