1. EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Neglected dimension
19th National Seminar on
Educational Leadership and
Management
Institut Aminuddin Baki
Ministry of Education Malaysia
3 July 2012
Keynote
Dr. Amin Senin
Deputy Director-General of Education
(Policy and Development)
Ministry of Education Malaysia
2. What dimension?
Content
of
presentation
Why neglected?
How to restore?
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3. Leading Managing
What? LEADERSHIP
Cultivating
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4. Leading
What? LEADERSHIP
“By leadership, I mean
influencing others’ actions in
achieving desireable ends.
Leaders are people who shape
the goals, motivations, and
actions of others. Frequently
they initiate change to reach
e x i s t i n g a n d n e w g o a l s . . .”
( Cuban, L., 1988 )
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5. Managing
What? LEADERSHIP
“Managing is maintaining
efficiently and effectively
current organizational
arrangement. While managing
well often exhibits leadership
skills, the overall function is
toward maintenance rather
t h a n c h a n g e .”
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6. What? LEADERSHIP
Cultivating
“. . . educational leadership is
first and foremost about the
work of educating. . . That is to
s a y, e d u c a t i o n a l l e a d e r s h i p
should be about developing
e v e r y o n e ’s u n i q u e h u m a n
resources in order to fully
e n a c t t h e e d u c a t i n g p r o c e s s .”
( Rober t J. St ar rat , 20 11)
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7. What? LEADERSHIP
Cultivating
“. . . the term human resources
to refer to those human
resources each individual brings
to the work of teaching and
learning—those talents,
dispositions, interests, life
experiences, cultural
proficiencies, and prior
education that comprise their
p e r s o n h o o d , t h e i r h u m a n i t y.”
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8. What? LEADERSHIP
Cultivating
“In short, educating is all
about the human development
of young people , and the
attendant learning of their
t e a c h e r s a s t h ey p ro b e w ay s
for their pedagogy to activate
the human resources of the
y o u n g l e a r n e r s .”
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9. Systemsworld
Why? “colonization”
Lifeworld
“Colonization of the
lifeworld. . . occurs when the
systemsworld begins to
dominate the lifeworld. . .
colonization happens
gradually and goes largely
u n n o t i c e d .”
( Thomas Se rg iovanni, 2004 )
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10. Why? Lifeworld
“ The lifeworld provides the
foundations for the
development of social,
intellectual, and other forms of
human capital that contribute,
in turn, to the development of
cultural capital that
contribute, in turn, to the
development of cultural
c a p i t a l .”
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11. Why? Systemsworld
The systemsworld, by contrast,
is a world of instrumentalities,
of efficient means designed to
achieved end. The systemsworld
provides the foundation for the
develoment of management and
of organizational and financial
capital that, in turn, contribute
to the development of material
c a p i t a l .”
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12. Development
of
How? Professional
Capital
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13. How? Professional
Capital H u m a n
Social
Decisional
( Fullan & Hargreave s , 20 12 )
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14. Professional Capital
How? Human Capital
“Human capital in teaching is
a b o u t h av i n g a n d d eve l o p i n g
the requisite knowledge and
skills. . . It is about possessing
the passion and the moral
commitment to ser ve all
children and to want to keep
getting better in how you
provide that ser vice . Human
capital is about individual
t a l e n t .”
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15. Professional Capital
How? Social Capital
“Social capital refers to how
the quantity and quality of
interactions and social
relationships among people
affects their access to
knowledge and information;
their senses of expectation,
obligation, and trust; and how
far they are likely to adhere to
the same norms or codes of
b e h a v i o r.”
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16. Professional Capital
How? Decisional Capital
“. . . is the capital that
professionals acquire and
accumulate through structured
and unstructured experience ,
practice , and reflection -
capital that enables them to
make wise judgements in
circumstances where there is
no fixed rule or piece of
incontrover tible evidence to
g u i d e t h e m .”
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