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Author Palestini, Robert H., author

Title Cultural differences in educational leadership : lessons from heaven's messengers, melting pot or not! / Robert Palestini
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Contemporary leadership theory -- Leading with heart -- Moses -- Gautama Buddha -- Confucius -- Jesus Christ -- Muhammad -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- St. Pope John Paul II -- St. Mother Teresa -- Pope Francis I -- What have you learned -- Appendix: Diagnostics (Heart Smart surveys I & II)
Summary Leaders and aspiring leaders from all over the world are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful in their particular society and culture and how those attributes can be applied to one's own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal, a superintendent of schools or a college president in the United States or elsewhere in the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Educational leadership -- Philosophy
Educational leadership -- Cross-cultural studies
Education -- Religious aspects
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Education -- Religious aspects.
Educational leadership.
Educational leadership -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016036437
ISBN 9781475827309
147582730X