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The Art of Educational Leadership
Balancing Performance and Accountabilityby Fenwick W. English
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
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Chapter 7
Balancing Performance and Accountability
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
3. How can we fully comprehend what artful performers do?
If we cannot permit ourselves to fully comprehend the nature of
leadership because of how we have chosen to define or view it, we
should stop using methods and models that leave us perpetually
ignorant and unable to adequately grasp what expert practitioners
who are supremely artful performer really do
(English 2008).
4. Traditional Notions of Leadership
Social Sciences
5. Scientific Method
6. Total Quality Management
7. Management Theory
8. Business Management
Business Management LiteratureWiens (2006)
Emphasis
Excellence
9. Effective
10. Effective habits
11. Total quality
Counterintuitive
Too prescriptive
12. Too presumptive
13. Too generalizing
PerformancePerformance is anchored in the essential core of
every leaders deeply held beliefs that not only guide him or her in
a role of leadership, but actively shape the world and define the
issues in it (English, 2008).
14. Accountability
Educational leaders are accountable for everything in the
educational system from:
policy to practice
15. Teaching
16. Defining goals to strategic planning
17. Measuring progress to improving performance
18. School finances & budgets to transportation
19. School safety to teacher retention
Deweys Distinction
Leadership
John Deweys Distinction
Art
Values of Moral Discourse
ScienceLimitations on Empiricism
Applied Practice
Problem of Definition
Performance
20. To advance educational leadership as a field of
professional studies intellectually and practically in the 21st
century a better balance between science and art of leading must
emerge (English, 2008).
21. Humanities disciplines studyHuman Condition
Literature
22. History
23. Philosophy
24. Drama
25. Theology
26. Sociology
27. Anthropology
28. Cultural Studies
The case for the study of educational leadership through
humanities
Michael Mann(2003)
Time to reinsert life into school administration
by expanding the context of what constitutes
appropriate text for educational leadership
preparation. Examination of life writings
contains a full range of human actions.
29. Winston Churchill
Voted Greatest ever Britton
Great Leader
Great Character
Great Vision
Great Ability to detect weaknesses
1940PM/ UK
Paradoxical
30. Strength of Humanities over Social Science
Samier ( 2005)- Positivistic and instructional approaches are not
equipped to deal with humanities questions such as:
Freedom
31. Authenticity
32. Responsibility
33. Individual action
These approaches are obscured in current fad of leadership
training(174).
34. Biography
Prosopo-graphy
Psychobio-graphy
Portrayals
Portraits
Profiles
Letters and Journals
Memoirs
Life stories
Auto- biography
Auto-biographical extensions
Obituaries
First Person Writing
Third Person Writing
35. Psychobiography
36. The Argument for Life Writings to Study Educational
Leadership
Allows leadership researcher to look at a greaternumber of
variables
37. Promotes richness of context to differentiate forms of
leadership
38. Promotes the study of the context of various arrays of
decisions and subsequent actions and outcomes that follow
39. Evokes conclusions that arise from ground truth-to analyze
how leaders get from here to there
Robert Greenleaf- AT&T CEO
What leaders are not
Ordinary
40. Products of
position
education
income
religion
ethnicity
Approach to Leadership
Noncoersive
41. Nonmanipulative
42. Quaker beliefs
43. Management ability tostate a goal & reach itthrough
others
44. Personal growth
45. Servant Leadership
46. Empowerment
47. Listening
48. Introspection
Learning Extension
Elizabeth -1998
Staring CateBlanchett
Daughter of Henry VII becomes queen of England and shrewdly leads
the country.The queen negotiates her way to consolidate her
authority in a divided land between Catholics and
Protestants.
49. Learning Extension
Documentary of
LNelson Mandela s life.
Contains footage of
Mandelas sojourn back to
Robben Island where
spent two decades in
prison. Portrays Mandels
leadership style and work
ethics as president of South
Africa.
50. Concluding Reflection Questions
What do you actually know about the leader (s) you most
admire?
51. What are the characteristics that stand out in you mind
about them?
52. What did the leaders actually do to merit being a
leader?
53. What types of contexts did your leaders encounter?
Leadership
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you
have stopped leading them.They have either lost confidence that
you
can help them or
concluded that you do not care.
Either case is a failure of leadership
Colin Powell
54. Life isdrawingwithout an eraser
55.
In life, you either follow paths or make trails.
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