On The Independence Of Leadership Pedagogy As A Discipline

At the beginning of 21st century, the professional establishment of doctoral empowerment of leadership pedagogy indicated the birth of leadership pedagogy as a discipline. However as a new developing discipline, the independent quality of leadership pedagogy needs proving. It is of necessity to probe into the independent standard of disciplines for the argumentation of this issue. There are two principles of standards including discipline organizational system and discipline norms to evaluate whether a discipline is of independence. In the process of evaluation of discipline independence in the past, people often carried out the standard of matureness principle neglecting the stages of discipline development. Therefore it is needed to propose discipline development gradient standard to differentiate discipline development conditions. Leadership pedagogy has already set up through the gradient standard of discipline development, but its construction still has a long way to go.Leadership pedagogy is a field to study the activities and phenomena of leadership education. Its main task is to pursue the leadership education principles and explain the leadership education phenomenon as well as guide leadership educational practice. On the ownership of this discipline, leadership pedagogy does not belong to the discipline of leadership, but a special theory discipline of pedagogy.It is necessary to answer the questions of the possibility and the necessity as well as the feasibility of the setting-up of leadership pedagogy. The continuation of the development of human beings and the study advantages of the adult make leadership education possible. The necessity for Leaders to learn and the specialization requirement of organization leaders make leadership education become a kind of necessity The existences of state policies, educational institutions, team of teachers and history practice have ensured the feasibility of leadership education. Leadership education is possible and necessary as well as feasible.Crosswise comparison can make leadership pedagogy different from other disciplines relatively, thus to reveal its independence. The key reason for leadership pedagogy to be different from other educational disciplines lies in that leadership educational activities are quite different from other educational activities. Leadership education has relationships as well as differences with leaders education, adult education, national education and life-long education. Leadership pedagogy is an independent discipline, but not a discipline existing solely. Disciplines such as Marxist philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, leadership studying, sociology, the study of human ability, etc are its basic disciplines. Leadership pedagogy different from leaders study, and it is also different from leaders pedagogy. They are independent each independence with close ties, but the crosswise comparison of leadership pedagogy has further shown its independence.Tt is a must to demonstrate the idea of leadership pedagogy bearing its own unique study objects before demonstrating that leadership pedagogy is an independent discipline. It is found by investigation that leadership education activity is of a common humanity in the ancient world. Leadership education occupying an important position is both universal and yet unique among the whole system of the education activities and it can entirely become an independent field of study to carry out specialized research. In different historical periods and different national and ethnic people have thought about the issues of leadership education, e.g. leadership education ideas as one of the research objects is just about people's consideration and thinking of leadership education. Hence, it is absolutely possible and feasible to take the activities and phenomena of leadership education as research objects to establish leadership pedagogy.We should further strengthen the position of the discipline research, vigorously develop new areas of the discipline research, strive to broaden the choosing range of the research materials and continue to seek suitable academic research methods so as to win the independence of leadership pedagogy. On the foundation of the efforts of combination leadership pedagogy is expected to develop more sufficiently.