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Publication Date: 2005-Nov
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On the Web, on Reclaiming "Spirituality," "Authenticity," and "Revolution": An Argument for Leadership-With
Hudak, Glenn M.
Journal of School Leadership, v15 n6 p686-707 Nov 2005
It is argued that the Web is transforming schooling in the 21st century, and as such altering the terrain of what leadership "means." Theorizing our submersion in the Internet, we discover that the Web enhances a "leadership-for" paradigm, while at the same time it militates against what is defined as a "leadership-with" paradigm. For the power of the Web is its capacity to transform our desire for meaningful interconnectedness: transforming "spirituality" and "authenticity" into products for the self-help industry, and leadership into something not intended--disembodied leadership. In our postmodern culture, revolutionary leadership can act to counter disembodiment in its demand for an embodied, "incarnate" leadership. With embodied leadership comes our solidarity "with" one another: our passionate sense of commitment for social justice and where one acts with such "intensity" as to stretch the boundary we normally consider as being "professional" into being "revolutionary." As such, revolutionary leadership is moral, spiritual, and authentic in that one is "released" from one's professional identity.
Descriptors: Internet, Leadership, Information Retrieval, Hermeneutics, Computer Mediated Communication, School Administration, Influence of Technology, Computer Networks, Social Networks, Social Justice, Models, Religious Factors, Group Unity
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