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"Gouwens, Judith A"
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Education in crisis : a reference handbook
Shows how competing economic, political, philosophical, psychological, and global interests have influenced American education reform.
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Leadership for urban school change: An interview observation study of personal reality of two Chicago elementary principals
The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the personal reality of leadership of two urban elementary school principals. The questions that guided the study are: (a) What elements constitute the personal reality of leadership for these principals? and (b) What are the variables that influence these elements? Personal reality of leadership, how leaders define and give meaning to their leadership, is based on the hermeneutical assumption that there are multiple realities of leadership, each socially and historically constructed, grounded in the life experiences of individual leaders. Data were gathered through interviews with and observations of the participants, two Chicago Public Schools elementary principals whose schools have improved under their leadership. Analysis of the data, begun with the initial interviews and continuing in a reciprocal process throughout the data collection, consisted of tentatively identifying categories, subcategories, and constructs, and confirming and fleshing them out with subsequent interviews and observations. The data are presented in unsequenced case studies which describe the participants' personal realities of leadership from their own points of view. The two personal realities are contrasting, as are their resulting leadership behavior. One principal is a strategic, purposeful leader whose metaphor of school is community; he is reflective and actively draws on his personal reality in planning his leadership behavior. The other principal's leadership is intuitive, and her metaphor of school is organization; she does not view her personal reality of leadership as a resource. Two elements of personal reality of school leadership present themselves in the cross-case analysis: meanings of experiences with schools and education, and meanings of experiences with leadership. The variables that affect these elements are the nature, range, and variety of experiences the principals have had; the social dimension of the experiences; the emotional responses associated with the experiences; and reflexivity. In the model of personal reality of school leadership drawn from the analysis, it is in the intersection of reflexivity with the other variables that meaning is made; personal reality of school leadership is the synthesis of meanings drawn from experiences with schools and education and from experiences with leadership.
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