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9780810845152

The Human Touch in Education Leadership A Postpositivist Approach to Understanding Educational Leadership

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  • ISBN13:

    9780810845152

  • ISBN10:

    0810845156

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-01-21
  • Publisher: R&L Education
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Summary

Palestini advances a new theory of educational leadership seen through the dual lens of critical theory and the Ignatian vision and its practical implications. A truly novel approach, the author strives to acquiant administrators and students of educational administration with a different way of thinking about education and its administration.

Author Biography

Robert H. Palestini is dean of graduate and continuing studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Human Touch in Educational Administration 1(4)
Educational Leadership
5(7)
The Positivist/Functionalist Approach to Leadership
12(11)
Critical Theory and Leadership
23(11)
Educational Administration as a Moral Science
34(6)
The Ignatian Vision
40(10)
Implications for Organizational Development
50(45)
Implications for Institutional Change
95(43)
Educational Choice and Vouchers: A Case Study
138(31)
Index 169(3)
About the Author 172

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