Leadership is Community Building: A Postmodern and Independent School Perspective
‘If the music changes so does the dance.’ School leadership, as well as the leadership of churches and other organizations, is hearing a different beat as modernity collapses into postmodernity. Modernity took the Western story to rational and scientific methods. This science has shaped organization...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Paternoster Periodicals
[2001]
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Journal of education & Christian belief
Year: 2001, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-25 |
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| Summary: | ‘If the music changes so does the dance.’ School leadership, as well as the leadership of churches and other organizations, is hearing a different beat as modernity collapses into postmodernity. Modernity took the Western story to rational and scientific methods. This science has shaped organizational life via technique, hierarchy and paperwork to control and predict the environment. Postmodernity emerges asserting ambiguity and community and challenging reason as the surest guide, an assault against the idea of all encompassing authority whether ideological or governing. Hence we move from the relationship of authority to the authority of relationship. The most appropriate leadership model to address this changed music is community building, inviting people to a common and faithful vision. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of education & Christian belief
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/205699710100500103 |