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50 Years of ERIC
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Leadership as Dance: A Consideration of the Applicability of the "Mother" of All Arts as the Basis for Establishing Connoisseurship
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Ehrich, Lisa Catherine; English, Fenwick W. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2013
This article follows the lead of several researchers who claim there is an urgent need to utilize insights from the arts, aesthetics and the humanities to expand our understanding of leadership. It endeavours to do this by exploring the metaphor of dance. It begins by critiquing current policy metaphors used in the leadership literature that…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy, Figurative Language, Dance
What Paradigm Shift? An Interrogation of Kuhn's Idea of Normalcy in the Research Practice of Educational Administration.
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English, Fenwick W. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2001
Because of continuous centering and recentering, paradigm shifts posited by Kuhn are not really changes; they are commensurate. New theories are simply old theories remade and renamed. The alternative is to consider conceptual diversity, abandoning the idea of a paradigm or a singular field of theory and practice. (Contains 27 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions
Pssssst! What Does One Call a Set of Non-Empirical Beliefs Required To Be Accepted on Faith and Enforced by Authority? [Answer: A Religion, AKA the ISLLC Standards].
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English, Fenwick W. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2000
The Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards are ambiguous and empirically insupportable. "Professional consensus" does not equal epistemology. Administrators licensed for practice in the 21st century will resemble secular Jesuits following an ideological agenda that exceeds the science left behind in the pragmatic pursuit of…
Descriptors: Consortia, Elementary Secondary Education, Ideology, Professional Autonomy