This paper uses the urban setting as a case study of some of the persistent challenges facing school principals. It uses data from Washington State and the University Council for Educational Administration's "Thousand Voices from the Firing Line" project to examine the perceived challenges of leading urban schools from the perspective of…

This paper examines how the United States Military Academy at West Point produces consistently high standards of quality, discussing what teacher education can learn from the military. West Point's mission is to educate and train the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate shall have the attributes essential to professional growth throughout a…

Mentoring is seen as one way by which a leader or leadership group can assure continuity and pass on to the next generation a particular brand of leadership for the university. Formalizing the mentor process by establishing mentor programs to aid the identification and development of promising administrators is discussed. (MLW)

Describes a program that instills in young persons a strong sense of civic responsibility. Outlines difficulties in reimagining leadership and the importance of self-awareness in leadership training. Explores personal values, group values, societal and community values, and how all of them work together. Discusses ways to implement the model. (RJM)

Highlights the importance of developing community college leaders capable of demonstrating strategic leadership and responding to the global forces that influence community college education. Discusses the Consortium for Community College Development's Strategic Leadership Forum and its principles, format, content, and early results. (RC)

Concerned with the impending community college leadership deficit, the author articulates a vision for reinventing leadership development programs that balance the collective wisdom of experience with the innovation essential for addressing the cultural and technological challenges of the future. Presents three model leadership programs that…

A fantasy dialogue, based on the author's personal experience, offers advice on how to learn to be a good department chair. It covers building a positive ethos, working with graduate students, and the importance of common sense. (LB)

Contends that leadership needs to evolve to a new form that is more systemic and rooted in the knowledge of organizational work processes. Discusses several professions as leadership analogies for incorporating work into conceptions of leadership. Argues for a shift from viewing leadership solely in hierarchial terms to recognizing leadership as…

Argues that interpersonal effectiveness arises from a life centered on universal principles, that effective outdoor leaders must recognize the basis and interpersonal consequences of behavioral decisions, and that, therefore, adventure leadership training should incorporate a guided self-examination of one's own principles as part of training in…

Examines the ambiguity over the role of headteachers in Spain by evaluating recent legislation, the impact of Franco's legacy on education, and the current preoccupation with democratic government at all levels. The paper highlights important attitude changes toward the role of the headteacher now occurring (mainly at local levels). (Author/SM)

Leadership, like diversity, is often used in education as an all-encompassing notion, applied to a wide variety of situations, or at times, used rather loosely. The danger with such an approach is the lack of specificity. Yet, specificity can set the boundaries so narrow that one is led to believe one approach is better than another or that "one…

Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to one's understanding of how beginning principals in Hong Kong exercise leadership by exploring the concurrent influence of their inner worlds and the external contexts on their leadership within a reforming environment. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a study of the work lives of beginning principals…

Educating and training Muslim men and women leaders who are capable of effectively navigating the multi-ethnic and multi-religious terrain in America--particularly in the post 9-11 milieu--requires the development of a new critical American Muslim pedagogy. This new pedagogy, centered in Islamic epistemology and ontology, should selectively…

The purpose of this study is to examine how power relations among stakeholders, especially between the human resource development (HRD) practitioners and others, affect evaluation outcomes. Using a qualitative case study design, a managerial leadership development programme in a Korean company is analysed. This study shows that the HRD…

Sometimes literature appears that a social studies teacher can use to create lesson plans for concepts that are difficult for students to master. This article is about such literature and how using it has resulted in students understanding and incorporating one of the most difficult lessons to absorb--leadership. In this article, the authors…