A Commonsense Approach to Educational Leadership

by Palestini, Robert, Ed.D

• ISBN13: 9781610487481
• ISBN10: 1610487486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-21
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful and how those attributes can be applied to one's own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal or a superintendent of schools .

Author Biography

Robert Palestini is dean emeritus and professor of educational leadership at Saint Joseph's University (SJU) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also the founding executive director of the Educational Leadership Institute and Center for Catholic Urban Education at SJU. In addition, with almost fifty years in the field of education, he has been a science teacher, principal, and superintendent of schools.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Contemporary Leadership Theory	p. 1
Leading with Heart	p. 15
Noah Webster	p. 37
Horace Mann	p. 49
Booker T. Washington	p. 59
Charles William Eliot	p. 71
Maria Montessori	p. 77
Robert Hutchins	p. 87
John Dewey	p. 99
Paulo Freire	p. 109
Reverend Theodore Hesburgh	p. 117
Marcus Foster	p. 129
Leadership Lessons Learned	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 151
Appendix: Diagnostics	p. 153
References	p. 165
About the Author	p. 167
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