Theoretical Construction And Practical Exploration Of School Moral Leadership

In the 1990s, there appeared the school of the moral leadership of schools represented by Thomas J. Sergiovanni in the West. The research of this school had rectified a great deviation on the traditional research and fulfillment of western school management, just as what Sergiovanni said that the moral leadership of schools could get to the heart of school improvement.However, the school went to the other extremity as it rectified a deviation, having stepped into the awkward situation of "The antidote turns into poison ". The reason for this tendency is that this research school pays more attention to the analysis than to the synthesis, more emphasis on the assurance than on the indetermination, and more stress on the common body metaphor than on to the essential aspect of school as organization. The research, therefore, slipped into the opposition of the research of the moral leadership of schools visibly or invisibly and intentionally or accidentally.Aiming at this kind research situation, this dissertation carries on the deep theoretical discussion and analysis of the moral leadership of schools, just as the following two aspects. First of all, it makes investigation and discrimination on the essence of moral leadership of schools, which bases on the complexity of the school organization. At the same time, it deeply seizes the essence of the moral leadership of schools, which depends on the worth mindset of the school community's mission. The purpose lies in the trying to construct of the theory of moral leadership of schools which is based on moral, coordinates the complexity and creativeness, makes the complementation of the specific character and community character, contains technique reasonableness and school of humanities concern of the moral leadership of school.On the basis of the theoretical discussion and analysis, the dissertation still puts forth effort to discuss the practical system of the moral leadership of schools from two levels of contents and framework, and the strategy and methods. On one hand, the paper inquiries into three fulfillment dimensions (such as knowledge community, teaching community, and learning community) of the construction of the community of school according to the knowledge study. On the other hand, the dissertation approaches the strategy and methods such as authority, communication, feedback,...