ERIC Number: ED491360
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 193
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ISBN: ISBN-1-4129-0290-8
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Democratic Leadership in Education
Woods, Philip A.
Paul Chapman Publishing
In this book Philip Woods turns his attention to issues of democracy and leadership. He has provided an eloquent, intellectually compelling and sophisticated account of a new leadership label--democratic leadership. He argues that the purpose of "democratic" leadership is to create and help sustain an environment that enables everyone who is deemed a free, creative agent to be part of inter-linking democratic rationalities. Furthermore, he argues that democratic leadership has an intimate relationship with social justice insofar that democratic participation is a means of offsetting distributive injustices. His argument is carefully crafted and richly informed by a range of theoretical perspectives. The book is well grounded and challenging, making the case for an intimate connection between democracy and the creative human potential. It is benign creativity, Woods suggests, that underpins the understanding of democratic leadership in this book. Throughout the book, democracy is anchored in a particular philosophical anthropology; it takes a particular view of what it means to be human and the potential of human creativity. Woods proposes that the aims of democratic leadership are to share power (by dispersing leadership) share hope (by extending opportunities to realise humanistic potential) and share the fruits of society (through fair distribution of resources and cultural respect). This book contains the following chapters: (1) Meanings of Democratic Leadership; (2) A Developmental Conception of Democratic Practice; (3) Models of Leadership; (4) Why Democratic Leadership?; (5) An Open Approach to Knowledge; (6) Links to Learning; (7) Obstacles and Challenges; (8) Free Space and Firm Framing; (9) Capabilities and Skills for Democratic Leadership; (10) Complexities and Demands of Practice; and (11) Dualities of Democratic Leadership. The book concludes with a Bibliography, Author Index, and a Subject Index. (Contains 16 figures and 5 tables.) [This book was published by Paul Chapman Publishing.]
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Democracy, Democratic Values, Leadership Styles, Models, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Books; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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