The Art of Educational Leadership: Balancing Performance and Accountability

Abstract

Preface 1. The Leadership Challenge Leaders and Leadership are Universal in Human Experience Pursuing Graduate Study to Become Complete Leadership Is an Art Because It Involves a Purposive Construction of Self The Importance of Individual Agency Leadership Is an Acquired Set of Habits and Skills Why Academic Study? Is There a Difference Between Leadership and Management? The Basis of Authority The Use of Power and Sanctions Follower Relations and Interactions Role Legitimacy and Relationships Creativity The Necessary Alliance: Leadership and Pursuing Learning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References 2. Archetypes of Leadership in Human Experience An Example of a Personal Leadership Journey The Origins of Leadership Leadership is Universal -But Leaders Are Contextual and Culturally Specific Actors The American Monomyth in Action Gender Barriers in Mythos and Religion Pursuing Learning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References 3. Mental Prisms of Leadership Discerning Contemporary Notions of Perception and How Do We Know What We Perceive Is True? Theories of Linguistic Difficulties with Theories of The Uses of in Science Pursuing Truth in Educational Leadership Tracing Influence of Herbert Simon and Doctrine of Efficiency A Final Commentary About Theories of Pursuing Leaning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References 4. Individual Human Agency and Principles of Action The Apex of Decision-Making: The Oracle of Delphi The Gardner Cognitive Model of Leadership There's No Getting Around Who Leader Is and What Is Important The Antipodes of Moral Discourse A Man of Unbending Principle Changes Center of Gravity of a Nation A Pragmatic Man of People Saves Nation The Creation of a Moral Compass A Moral Compass in Contentious Times: The Case of Ted Bell The Case of Wounded Leader Pursuing Learning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References 5. Leadership as Artful Performance Roles vs. Traits: Popular Misconceptions of Leadership Determining Role Legitimacy as Basis of Performance Is Leadership Acting? Real Life Drama in Chicago: A Portrait of Power Undone How Followers Look to School Leaders for What They Need A Portrait of Two Types of Story Tellers as Leaders Pursuing Learning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References 6. Understanding Landscape of Educational Leadership Central Tenets of Modernism The Pseudo Epoch: Educational Leadership and Long Shadow of Scientific Management The Early Epoch The Behaviorism Epoch The Epoch of Structuralism The Feminist/Critical Theory Epoch The Critical Race Theory Epoch The Queer Theory Epoch The Postmodern Epoch Kitsch Texts and Educational Leadership Pursuing Learning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References 7. Balancing Performance and Accountability A Review of Many Forms of Life Writing Third Person Forms of Life Writing First Person Life Writing Forms Gauging Possibilities of Life Writing to Understand Leadership Confronting Myopia of the Field Servant Leadership: The Mind and Heart as One Pursuing Learning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References 8. Artful Performance and National Standards The National Leadership Standards Foucault's Concept of Apparatus Problems with Knowledge Base: Producing an Unequivocal Platform for Normalizing Gaze and Policing Function Re-Tracing Steps in Developmental Process Step One: Reductionism, Rationality and Core Technologies Step Two: The Erasure of Context So One Size Fits All Step Three: Stifling Research Dissent by V.C.P (Vicious Circle Principle) The Metaphors of Efficiency in ISLLC Standards The National Debate on Educational Leadership Preparation Pursuing Learning Extensions of Chapter Writing in Your Personal Reflective Journal A Review of Key Chapter Concepts References Index About Author