Book chapter
THE LEADERSHIP
Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching, Emerald Group Publishing
01 Jan 2010
Abstract
This chapter considers different ways of conceptualizing leadership, through a review of key literature in management, some of it specifically targeted to English language program administration. The language program leader's job is considered in the light of this literature in terms of different types of focus on leaders and leadership. We begin by examining the notion of leadership and the specific functions of the language program director. While traditionally leadership has been cast as a set of traits or skills, more recent theories have focused on the role of leadership of people and in specific contexts and the importance of managing for change. These types of leadership are described and critiqued in relation to the ecological model of the language program, to develop concepts of ecological leadership and the ecological leader.
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- Title
- THE LEADERSHIP
- Creators
- Martha C. Pennington - Georgia So Univ, Statesboro, GA 30460 USABarbara J. Hoekje - Drexel University
- Contributors
- M C Pennington (Editor)B J Hoekje (Editor)
- Series
- Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing; BINGLEY
- Number of pages
- 47
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication; School of Education
- Identifiers
- 991020545414104721
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