Authentic Educational Leadership in Schools

This text seeks to re-establish the place and the importance of a valuesbased,philosophically-underpinned, national educational provision, throughwhich reason and integrity, intellect and morality, caring and sharing, are morehighly valued as educational outcomes than are narrow academic achievementsonly, leading to ways and means for accruing power and material possessions. The text will be confronting to some in that it challenges the following:governments to re-conceive the purposes of education and of schooling; schoolsand their societies to more carefully evaluate their educational structures andprocesses; teachers to re-consider the breadth and assessment of curricular;and society in general to demand from politicians, suffi cient and appropriateeconomic and intellectual support to and for every school.