Examining the emotionality of leadership by exploring administrators' recall of key junctures... more Examining the emotionality of leadership by exploring administrators' recall of key junctures in their lives as leaders, this study investigated the associations between an individual's work philosophy of leadership and his/her experience of emotionality in leadership work. Participants were five Canadian individuals actively involved in leadership/administrative positions in education. The study used stimulated recall of emotional experiences associated with leadership work. Data collection involved interviews, the researcher's observation notes, and participants' written reflections about the interviews. Data analysis indicated that the protection of self from emotional hurt was of paramount importance. This was fostered by sharing and collaboration. Leadership styles that were controlling and perfectionist related to high anxiety, fear, and reticence to risk. Authentic collaboration was a successful anxiety reducer and optimizing strategy. There was a stronger cap...
School leaders in Australia are facing more challenges in taking responsibilities of development ... more School leaders in Australia are facing more challenges in taking responsibilities of development and maintenance of healthy relationships with school community members within and outside school buildings, creating emotional pressures on them. School leaders are encouraged to participate in the Australian Inner Leadership On the Line Study, which is devoted entirely for human leadership, helping them identify the inner leadership.
The role of emotion in leading change is readily noted but as yet, not fully explored as a centra... more The role of emotion in leading change is readily noted but as yet, not fully explored as a central focus in leadership preparation programs (Beatty & Brew, 2004). This study assists us in conceptualising the changes experienced by students in the new Monash (Australia) Master in School Leadership and in understanding the transformational effects of the program. The course integrates emotional meaning making (Beatty, 2002) as core to developing transformational leaders. Course content and experiential delivery modalities engage students in opportunities for moving through a theorised series of emotional epistemological stances, located along a proposed continuum from emotional silence through to resilient emotional relativity. Reported on in this second phase of the larger study are participants’ responses to the framework’s concepts relative to their experiences in the course and to their work in substantive leadership positions in schools. A summary of results from phase one interv...
The current emphasis on performance outcomes in schools has threatened to eclipse the importance ... more The current emphasis on performance outcomes in schools has threatened to eclipse the importance of social connectedness as an antecedent to student success. Presented is an instrument designed to measure student sense of connectedness with school based on relevant dimensions provided in the literature: student sense of belonging, engagement, expected learning, and trust. Drawing on data from over 3,000 US students from six high schools, exploratory factor analysis yielded six latent factors based on 31 of 46 original items: students’ sense of belonging with peers; teacher support; fairness and safety; academic engagement; engagement in the broader community; and relatedness of self with school. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded acceptable preliminary fit measures. Preliminary path analyses suggest that students’ sense of relatedness with school mediates their relative propensity toward academic engagement, with the other factors antecedent. Schools seeking to obtain reliable mea...
Australian Association for Research in Education …, 2000
Using Denzin's (1984) notion of emotional understanding as a sensitizing concept, this study... more Using Denzin's (1984) notion of emotional understanding as a sensitizing concept, this study explores how teachers experience emotionally their interactions with school administrators. By examining the emotions and the situations leading to emotions, that 50 elementary and ...
The connections among relational trust, learning and development are implicit in transformational... more 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 if an emotional epistemologies theoretical framework could be helpful to engage aspirant leaders in re-examining emotion’s role in their practice. In the context of a Masters in Educational...
Examining the emotionality of leadership by exploring administrators' recall of key junctures... more Examining the emotionality of leadership by exploring administrators' recall of key junctures in their lives as leaders, this study investigated the associations between an individual's work philosophy of leadership and his/her experience of emotionality in leadership work. Participants were five Canadian individuals actively involved in leadership/administrative positions in education. The study used stimulated recall of emotional experiences associated with leadership work. Data collection involved interviews, the researcher's observation notes, and participants' written reflections about the interviews. Data analysis indicated that the protection of self from emotional hurt was of paramount importance. This was fostered by sharing and collaboration. Leadership styles that were controlling and perfectionist related to high anxiety, fear, and reticence to risk. Authentic collaboration was a successful anxiety reducer and optimizing strategy. There was a stronger cap...
School leaders in Australia are facing more challenges in taking responsibilities of development ... more School leaders in Australia are facing more challenges in taking responsibilities of development and maintenance of healthy relationships with school community members within and outside school buildings, creating emotional pressures on them. School leaders are encouraged to participate in the Australian Inner Leadership On the Line Study, which is devoted entirely for human leadership, helping them identify the inner leadership.
The role of emotion in leading change is readily noted but as yet, not fully explored as a centra... more The role of emotion in leading change is readily noted but as yet, not fully explored as a central focus in leadership preparation programs (Beatty & Brew, 2004). This study assists us in conceptualising the changes experienced by students in the new Monash (Australia) Master in School Leadership and in understanding the transformational effects of the program. The course integrates emotional meaning making (Beatty, 2002) as core to developing transformational leaders. Course content and experiential delivery modalities engage students in opportunities for moving through a theorised series of emotional epistemological stances, located along a proposed continuum from emotional silence through to resilient emotional relativity. Reported on in this second phase of the larger study are participants’ responses to the framework’s concepts relative to their experiences in the course and to their work in substantive leadership positions in schools. A summary of results from phase one interv...
The current emphasis on performance outcomes in schools has threatened to eclipse the importance ... more The current emphasis on performance outcomes in schools has threatened to eclipse the importance of social connectedness as an antecedent to student success. Presented is an instrument designed to measure student sense of connectedness with school based on relevant dimensions provided in the literature: student sense of belonging, engagement, expected learning, and trust. Drawing on data from over 3,000 US students from six high schools, exploratory factor analysis yielded six latent factors based on 31 of 46 original items: students’ sense of belonging with peers; teacher support; fairness and safety; academic engagement; engagement in the broader community; and relatedness of self with school. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded acceptable preliminary fit measures. Preliminary path analyses suggest that students’ sense of relatedness with school mediates their relative propensity toward academic engagement, with the other factors antecedent. Schools seeking to obtain reliable mea...
Australian Association for Research in Education …, 2000
Using Denzin's (1984) notion of emotional understanding as a sensitizing concept, this study... more Using Denzin's (1984) notion of emotional understanding as a sensitizing concept, this study explores how teachers experience emotionally their interactions with school administrators. By examining the emotions and the situations leading to emotions, that 50 elementary and ...
The connections among relational trust, learning and development are implicit in transformational... more 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 if an emotional epistemologies theoretical framework could be helpful to engage aspirant leaders in re-examining emotion’s role in their practice. In the context of a Masters in Educational...
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