This qualitative study explored core and adjunct faculty members' transformational leadership and power usage in relation to students' affective learning in the classroom. Current research has focused on instructors in general and has not distinguished between types of instructors. The literature on transformational leadership, social power bases,…

Given societal calls for transformational leadership that will lift people to higher levels of motivation and critical consciousness, this paper critiques existing student leadership education efforts and proposes that leadership educators adopt core tenets of feminism in order to prepare students to be engaged, change-oriented leaders in their…

What is the role of schools, and more specifically school leadership, in the transition to a sustainable future for humankind? What different forms of leadership are needed to enable this role? The challenges are huge and complex and for those of us engaged in promoting sustainability learning, it is clear that the issue has never been more…

Global survival hinges on an appreciation that the solutions to problems reside within the collective strength of diversity. However, achieving inclusion is often relegated to periodic infusions of multiculturalism into the mainstream of organizational culture. And "diversity" is quickly becoming the latest buzzword for an idea that, though…

Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony--not so much a theory of domination as a theory of the manufacturing of commonsense--offers a way to break into the myth of leadership as always already tied to practices of domination. His complex accounting of leadership's "necessary" relationship to the pedagogic and hegemonic constitute an…

Examines the meanings of power in relation to questions about leadership, language, curriculum, school knowledge, and program development in a community-controlled Navajo school; describes in first-person-singular detail how power was used as a prescriptive notion to create English and Navajo literacy programs that specify conditions for student…