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Encapsulating Moral Dilemma through Short Story: Challenging Pre-Service Teachers to Critically Think about the Student/Teacher Personality and Leadership Dynamic
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Lennon, Sean M. – Online Submission, 2007
Pre-service teachers and education students in three different classes (N = 53) were directed to read a short story by Mark Twain titled "Heaven or Hell?" written within a compilation of short stories late in his career. The story, "Heaven or Hell?" illustrates a koan, or an unanswerable moral or ethical dilemma. The students,…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Ethics, Leadership, Moral Values
Looking for "The Vision Thing": The Rhetoric of Leadership in the 1992 Presidential Election.
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Wendt, Ronald F.; Fairhurst, Gail T. – Communication Quarterly, 1994
Examines four interrelated organizational models of charisma and the debate that has accompanied them. Uses the models to analyze the rhetoric of leadership of George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential campaign. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Leadership
Reagan's Challenger Tribute: Combining Generic Constraints and Situational Demands.
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Mister, Steven M. – Central States Speech Journal, 1986
Discusses President Reagan's televised address following the space shuttle tragedy and the unique rhetorical demands of the situation. Examines how generic constraints that establish commonalities among all eulogies are interwoven with the responses to the specific needs of a nation in crisis. (NKA)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Crisis Management, Death, Discourse Analysis