Description
Leading Beautifully provides a new dimension to understanding effective leadership. Drawing from lessons in the arts and the humanities, English and Ehrich explore how educational decision-making in schools can be informed by identity, personal competence, and an understanding of the field’s intellectual foundations. Based on in-depth interviews of artists and educational leaders, this book provides insight into the inner world of successful leaders who have developed competencies and understandings that extend beyond the standard leadership tool box. This exciting new book explores the theory and practice of leadership connoisseurship as a human-centered endeavor and as an antidote to mechanistic, business-oriented practices. The authors’ well-grounded reconsideration of educational leadership will enliven and enhance any educational leader’s practice.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Connoisseurship Revealed
Chapter 2 A Typology of Connoisseurship
Chapter 3 Educational Leaders as Connoisseurs
Chapter 4 How Artists and Leaders Think and Work
Chapter 5 Portraits of Artists
Chapter 6 Portraits of Connoisseurs of Leadership Performance
Chapter 7: Connoisseurship Vs Corporate Managerialism
Chapter 8 Leading Beautifully: The Cosmogony of Connoisseurship
Epilogue: Final Lessons on Connoisseurship
Appendix
About the Authors
Index
