Trusting relationships and emotional epistemologies:1 a foundational leadership issue

Autor: Christine Brew, Brenda Ruth Beatty
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: School Leadership & Management. 24:329-356
ISSN: 1364-2626
1363-2434
Popis: The connections among relational trust, learning and development are implicit in transformational leadership theory. They have also been established empirically in recent studies. Leadership preparation programs often endorse the need for leaders to build effective collaborative relationships that rely on trust. Trust is an emotional phenomenon. However, when consideration of emotions—the cooked and the raw—remains prohibited in professional discourse this can limit the development of trust and directly influence the likelihood of leader success in building collaborative school cultures. For these reasons, there is a need to address the emotions of leadership as part of a comprehensive approach to preparing leaders for the challenges in today's schools. In this study, it was of interest to learn whether an emotional epistemologies theoretical framework could be helpful in engaging aspirant leaders in re‐examining emotion's role in their practice. In the context of a Masters in Educational Leadership progr...
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