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Preparing Educational Leaders to Embrace the "Public" in Public Schools
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Hoff, Dianne L.; Yoder, Nancy; Hoff, Peter S. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2006
Purpose: George Counts' classic 1932 speech asks, "Dare the school build a new social order?" This article proposes examining whether emerging school leaders are prepared to face this challenge and embrace the society-building responsibility at the core of public schooling. It aims to focus especially on students from homogeneous…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Graduate Students, Public Schools, Leadership Training
Fostering Hope: A Leader's First and Last Task
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Walker, Keith D. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of the article is to call upon educational leaders to consider the forces that hinder hope-giving and to consider viewing their work as inspiring warranted hope among their constituents in situations of well-defined reality. Design/methodological/approach: The author argues that hope is an essential component of leader agency…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
From Empiricism to Hermeneutics: Educational Leadership as a Practical and Moral Activity.
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Smith, John K.; Blase, Joseph – Journal of Educational Administration, 1991
Empiricists argue that social reality is independent of our interest in it; however, hermeneuticists hold that social reality is socially constructed and facts are not separate from values. Examines the implications of hermeneutics on the study and practice of educational leadership. (54 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Hermeneutics, Leadership Qualities