Page 10 - Leadership Basics Educative Leadership

In this Leadership Basics, we discuss various practical strategies
through which mid level leaders can develop educative
leadership skills.
We suggest that improved leadership will result when
individuals learn to be educative leaders. In this reading you
will be asked to reflect upon and discuss strategies for
enhancing your leadership.
Throughout this reading there are five shaded conversation
boxes that invite you to discuss ideas with your colleagues.

[Note: Be warned, if you are reading about educative leadership on the internet because this term
can have another connotation. For some authors educative leadership is solely concerned with a
‘Critical Theory’ founded in ethical or moral leadership in schools. For example, Duignan &
McPherson (1993) say that, "A key point made by the educative leadership research is that educative
leaders have a moral responsibility to play a proactive role in helping communities make sense of
changes in ways that help reform social, and political relationships" (p.12)]

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