Discusses the need to develop leadership in the library profession and describes leadership training methods. Highlights include core values and beliefs guiding leadership training; critical leadership traits; a design model for leadership training; strategies for administrators to develop leadership within their libraries; and stages of…

Argues for the adoption of critical pedagogy by management educators. Presents two examples of implementing critical pedagogy in content and process to illustrate potential for the transformation of organizational arrangements. (Contains 64 references.) (DDR)

A look at the history of marketing education shows how it has influenced the education of students and how its concepts are still being used in education today. Marketing educators were pioneers in educational opportunities for women, performance-based education, cooperative education, and leadership development. (JOW)

Reviews research on poverty in the United States, the effects of poverty on children and learning, attitudes of Americans toward causes of poverty, and status of social justice in educational leadership programs. Survey of educational leadership programs finds little instructional attention given to the complexity of poverty. Recommends the…

In Kolb's study, 123 students completed Bem's Sex Role Inventory before and a leadership scale after participating in mixed-gender groups. Attitudes toward leadership and leadership experience were stronger predictors of leader emergence than masculine gender role was. Karau and Eagly's reaction places the study in a theoretical context. (SK)

Explains that the goal of the journal is to help group workers understand what makes an effective group leader. Recommends that examination and processing of experiences with different groups is essential to the ongoing development of leadership skills. Details several changes made in the journal that provide different kinds of information to…

A shortage of qualified administrators has sparked a boom in principal-preparation programs. Some states and school districts have developed innovative principal-training programs that typically consist of classroom work; a full-time internship; and a network that allows program graduates to share information with colleagues and get feedback from…

This article examines the breadth and depth of Rex Stockton's contributions to the Association for Specialists in Group Work since its inception.

In the instruction of the Core I course in which the objectives focus on elements of leadership, the author spends much time in having students (future leaders) begin the soul searching process of determining who they are and what they believe. This process entails developing a vocabulary that they can use to articulate their being to others who…

This article provides a critical analysis of the teacher leadership literature. It considers teacher leadership within the context of contemporary leadership theory, focusing particularly upon distributed leadership. The article explores different interpretations and definitions of the term "teacher leadership" and considers the implications for…

In the report entitled "Educating School Leaders," Arthur Levine (2005) criticizes leadership preparation programs as "inadequate to appalling," citing, among other issues, the proliferation of off campus programming, the weakening of standards, and an unwillingness to engage in any measure of "systematic…

A major recommendation, or mandate in some cases, handed down to principal preparation programs from accrediting agencies, state certication departments, or other bodies, is to prominently include school districts in the program. This might include Advisory Councils that include public school administrators, involving districts in the selection of…

After the quality of a school's teachers, the quality of a school's leaders is the most influential school-based factor affecting student learning, and research indicates that leadership impacts student achievement the most in academic settings serving students who traditionally have not done well in school. In an effort to provide high-quality…

This paper discusses research and thinking on the importance of interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness for teachers, school leaders and school improvement, and explores implications of the use of NLP in relation to personalisation and the children's agenda. It outlines initial research carried out as part of the Fast Track Teaching…

The current report explores what is available to superintendents after they assume their positions: what the landscape of sustained executive training and support options available for sitting school system leaders looks like. It describes about two dozen programs offered around the country-who offers them, how they are organized and funded, what…