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Daytona Beach, Florida
Description
This article on leadership serves as an important point of entry to the understanding and teaching of values with the goal of improving teacher effectiveness. As a dynamic process, leadership can take many forms. Considerable attention has been given to this process in both formal and informal sources. In fact, the literature abounds with information relating to the numerous theoretical points of entry that are possible for exercising leadership. However, as described in what follows, there is a paucity of information pertaining to the linkage between values and leadership as the transformation of values. The central purpose of this article is to address the latter issues, especially from the vantage ground of values in the acculturation process, and their significance for the process of leadership. In so doing, the authors provide an analysis of the following: I) Key transformational concepts of the shaping and reshaping forces; 2) The setting within the macro/micro environment; 3) Contributions of some past theories of leadership, and a prototype of transformational leadership; 4) Societal forces affecting the acculturation process, including nine values of acculturation; 5) Content analysis of the literature, involving four databases; 6) A working model of leadership, such as The Global Society for the Advancement of Leadership (GSAL); and 7) A key element in enhancing teaching effectiveness is that the teacher and the student work from a common understanding of each other's value base. It is the conclusion of this paper that there are common core values which are crucial to the educational process. Furthermore, this common value base is applicable to and can be transferred to the students in the process of teaching any subject in the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University curriculum. The key elements in this transformational process are the ability to cope, the ability to interact, and the ability to apply the values.
Leadership and the Transformation of Values
Daytona Beach, Florida
This article on leadership serves as an important point of entry to the understanding and teaching of values with the goal of improving teacher effectiveness. As a dynamic process, leadership can take many forms. Considerable attention has been given to this process in both formal and informal sources. In fact, the literature abounds with information relating to the numerous theoretical points of entry that are possible for exercising leadership. However, as described in what follows, there is a paucity of information pertaining to the linkage between values and leadership as the transformation of values. The central purpose of this article is to address the latter issues, especially from the vantage ground of values in the acculturation process, and their significance for the process of leadership. In so doing, the authors provide an analysis of the following: I) Key transformational concepts of the shaping and reshaping forces; 2) The setting within the macro/micro environment; 3) Contributions of some past theories of leadership, and a prototype of transformational leadership; 4) Societal forces affecting the acculturation process, including nine values of acculturation; 5) Content analysis of the literature, involving four databases; 6) A working model of leadership, such as The Global Society for the Advancement of Leadership (GSAL); and 7) A key element in enhancing teaching effectiveness is that the teacher and the student work from a common understanding of each other's value base. It is the conclusion of this paper that there are common core values which are crucial to the educational process. Furthermore, this common value base is applicable to and can be transferred to the students in the process of teaching any subject in the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University curriculum. The key elements in this transformational process are the ability to cope, the ability to interact, and the ability to apply the values.