The Art of Educational Leadership

Fenwick W. English (Ph.D.) is the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position he has held since 2001. As a scholar/practitioner he has held positions as a school principal and superintendent of schools in California and New York and as a department chair, dean, and vice-chancellor of academic affairs at universities in Ohio and Indiana. He is the former President of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) and of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). His research has been reported in national and international academic forums. He edited the 2006 SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, the 2009 SAGE Library of Educational Thought and Practice: Educational Leadership and Administration; and the 2011 SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership (2nd Ed.). In 2013, he received the Living Legend Award from NCPEA for his lifetime contribution to the field of educational leadership.

"Fenwick W. English returns to themes of leadership he explored in more than 20 earlier books and dozens of presentation to educator audiences. He favors "re-centering educational leadership in the humanities," rather than acting on the recommendation of the business literature, and he emphasizes the use of films as a way to humanize leadership concepts."—THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR

• Preface1. The Leadership ChallengeLeaders and Leadership are Universal in the Human ExperiencePursuing Graduate Study to Become the “Complete Leader”Leadership Is an Art Because It Involves a Purposive Construction of SelfThe Importance of Individual AgencyLeadership Is an Acquired Set of Habits and SkillsWhy Academic Study?Is There a Difference Between Leadership and Management?The Basis of AuthorityThe Use of Power and SanctionsFollower Relations and InteractionsRole Legitimacy and RelationshipsCreativityThe Necessary Alliance: Leadership and ManagementPursuing Learning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferences2. Archetypes of Leadership in the Human ExperienceAn Example of a Personal Leadership JourneyThe Origins of LeadershipLeadership is Universal —But Leaders Are Contextual and Culturally Specific ActorsThe American Monomyth in ActionGender Barriers in Mythos and ReligionPursuing Learning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferences3. Mental Prisms of LeadershipDiscerning Contemporary Notions of Perception and TruthHow Do We Know What We Perceive Is True? Theories of TruthLinguistic Difficulties with Theories of TruthThe Uses of Truth in SciencePursuing “Truth” in Educational LeadershipTracing the Influence of Herbert Simon and the Doctrine of EfficiencyA Final Commentary About Theories of TruthPursuing Leaning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferences4. Individual Human Agency and Principles of ActionThe Apex of Decision-Making: The Oracle of DelphiThe Gardner Cognitive Model of LeadershipThere’s No Getting Around Who the Leader Is and What Is ImportantThe Antipodes of Moral DiscourseA Man of Unbending Principle Changes the Center of Gravity of a NationA Pragmatic Man of the People Saves the NationThe Creation of a Moral CompassA Moral Compass in Contentious Times: The Case of Ted BellThe Case of the Wounded LeaderPursuing Learning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferences5. Leadership as Artful PerformanceRoles vs. Traits: Popular Misconceptions of LeadershipDetermining Role Legitimacy as the Basis of PerformanceIs Leadership Acting?Real Life Drama in Chicago: A Portrait of Power UndoneHow Followers Look to School Leaders for What They NeedA Portrait of Two Types of Story Tellers as LeadersPursuing Learning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferences6. Understanding the Landscape of Educational LeadershipCentral Tenets of ModernismThe Pseudo Scientific Epoch: Educational Leadership and the Long Shadow of “Scientific Management”The Early Scientific EpochThe Behaviorism EpochThe Epoch of StructuralismThe Feminist/Critical Theory EpochThe Critical Race Theory EpochThe Queer Theory EpochThe Postmodern EpochKitsch Management Texts and Educational LeadershipPursuing Learning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferences7. Balancing Performance and AccountabilityA Review of the Many Forms of Life WritingThird Person Forms of Life WritingFirst Person Life Writing FormsGauging the Possibilities of Life Writing to Understand LeadershipConfronting the Myopia of “the Field”Servant Leadership: The Mind and the Heart as OnePursuing Learning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferences8. Artful Performance and National StandardsThe National Leadership StandardsFoucault’s Concept of ApparatusProblems with the Knowledge Base: Producing an Unequivocal Platform for the Normalizing Gaze and the Policing FunctionRe-Tracing the Steps in the Developmental ProcessStep One: Reductionism, Rationality and Core TechnologiesStep Two: The Erasure of Context So One Size Fits AllStep Three: Stifling Research Dissent by the V.C.P (Vicious Circle Principle)The Metaphors of Efficiency in the ISLLC StandardsThe National Debate on Educational Leadership PreparationPursuing Learning Extensions of the ChapterWriting in Your Personal Reflective JournalA Review of Key Chapter ConceptsReferencesIndexAbout the Author