Dear Robyn and All - I was hoping that you would enjoy the foci of Marian's thesis in both generating knowledge and improving practice. Marian references both Sergiovanni on leadership and Greenleaf on servant leadership in enhancing the educational influences of her leadership practices. I've made Marian's thesis available from the top of the living theory section of http://www.actionresearch.net at http://www.actionresearch.net/living/living.shtml . I like to add more accounts of educational influences of leadership practices to our archive so urls to these accounts are particularly welcome.
Love Jack.
On 11 Aug 2010, at 17:59, Robyn Pound wrote:
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> Thanks Jack, NOW I feel entirely at home even though I am not a teacher let alone a school principal. Interesting that you sent this out under the Brief Thoughts on Servant Leadership thread. My fingers have hovered many times over the course of this quite lengthy discussion because the issues are complex and multi faceted and whenever someone writes about one bit of it an opposing view looms. In the end I think we are probably all saying variations of the same thing - motivated by those values that good practice and humanitarian living comes down to. (Another debate to be had about universal and personally held values). This is what I love about dialectical research - the expectation that contradictions can be explored and held within the endeavour to embrace the whole.
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> Any way, I wrote because of the thesis abstract below and the contrast in feelings I experienced to the previous interpretive servant leadership theses offered, both of which I have scanned. These were both thorough explorations of issues that were well worth exploring and suggested actions came out of them. My concern is that unless each author actions these recommendations themselves, because they have the deepest engagement with the subject, I wonder how much change will really happen more than policy documents? A contrast is evident with this recent thesis when a manager/policy maker (the principal) is researching her influence over the change she wishes to see in her school. I haven't read this thesis yet but I can see that she has the opportunity to try things until change actually happens and the staff know why things are changing.
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> So that this is not just yet another reply in my draft box I shall send now.
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> Robyn
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