Journal article
How Might Aesthetic Knowing Relate to Leadership? A Review of the Literature
International journal of education and the arts, Vol.12
30 Jun 2011
Abstract
Aesthetic knowing may be valuable to educational leadership practice because it links feeling and intuition to procedural information to inform decision-making. Within the large and diverse field of aesthetics, some models apply aesthetic knowing to leadership practice. Scholarly interest in this area emerged in the late 1980's, and various conceptualizations of aesthetic leadership abound in the literature. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to review and clarify the relationship between aesthetic knowing and leadership skills. In effort to answer the question, "How do scholars relate aesthetic ways of knowing to leadership?" 23 literature sources from 1986-2010 were reviewed. As a result, four categories of aesthetic leadership qualities emerged: emotional awareness and empathy; sensory and somatic attentiveness; interest in organizational beauty; and the promotion of moral purpose. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)
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- Title
- How Might Aesthetic Knowing Relate to Leadership? A Review of the Literature
- Creators
- Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro
- Publication Details
- International journal of education and the arts, Vol.12
- Publisher
- International Journal of Education & the Arts
- Number of pages
- 18
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Identifiers
- 991020546417304721