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9780807741832

Developing Educational Leaders: A Working Model: The Learning Community in Action

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807741832

  • ISBN10:

    0807741833

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $23.95

Summary

In Developing Educational Leaders, the authors present their groundbreaking work with learning communities in educational leadership preparation programs, resulting in a working model for leadership development. In a readable text with practical hands-on examples, this volume:?Bridges the gap between theories of learning communities and their application in university settings. ?Contrasts the differences between settings that merely lend the appearance of a learning community and a true learning community.?Brings together the individual and community benefits that result from the learning community setting.?Demonstrates how values-based leadership can be developed and implemented. ?Provides a conceptual framework, including guidelines for using cohort structures within educational administration programs.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Linda Lambert
Introduction 1(8)
The Learning Community
9(22)
Belief Statements and Assumptions
10(1)
The Need for Learning Communities
11(1)
Personal Empowerment Through Learning Communities
12(1)
Learning Communities Conceptualized
13(1)
Sociological and Psychological Nature of Groups
14(1)
Review of the Study
15(1)
Group Development: The Sociolgical Perspective
16(3)
Individual Development: The Psychological Perspective
19(5)
A Learning Community Model
24(1)
Implications for School Leadership
25(5)
Looking Ahead
30(1)
Leadership and Community Development Through Values Consciousness
31(17)
Values and Leadership
31(3)
Values Development
34(2)
Values and Ethics
36(1)
Values and Leadership Development
37(1)
Pathways of Values and Leadership Development
38(2)
Cycles of Growth
40(1)
Phases of Consciousness
41(5)
Summary
46(1)
Looking Ahead
46(2)
Principals as Developing Leaders
48(27)
Students' Experience in Administrator Preparation Programs
50(1)
The Leaders
50(22)
Overall Perspectives
72(2)
Summary
74(1)
Transformational Leadership: Conceptualized and Developed
75(16)
Moral Leadership Through Care
75(3)
Ethic of Care
78(2)
Servant Leadership
80(2)
Framing Leadership Perspectives
82(1)
Leadership Perspective, Past and Present
83(2)
Ethical Responsibilities of Transformational Leadership
85(2)
The Need for Transformational Leaders
87(1)
A Challenge to Those Who Prepare Leaders
88(3)
Shaping the Curriculum to Foster Leadership Development Within Learning Communities
91(19)
Content Curriculum
92(4)
Process Curriculum
96(4)
Role of the Professor
100(2)
Instructional Methods
102(6)
Summary
108(2)
The Legacy of Learning Communities: Transfer to the Workplace
110(19)
The Concept of Learning Transfer
111(1)
Factors Affecting Transfer and Change
112(4)
Transfer and Learning Communities
116(9)
Final Thoughts on Transfer
125(1)
Conclusion
126(3)
Epilogue: The Impact of Our Work, Individually and Collectively 129(10)
References 139(10)
Index 149(9)
About the Authors 158

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