Hawkinson Educational Leadership Theory

This dissertation, which is carried out by means of literature-analysis briefly and comparison additionally, is emphatically on the main contents of Christopher Hodgkinson's educational leadership theories and some comments on theories. The main body of the dissertation can be classified into four parts:Part 1 analyses the view of Hodgkinson's education chiefly. In Hodgkinson's opinion, education is an especial project whose special characteristics lie in the basic value of educational organization: it seeks to establish and enhance the values of security, health, the common good, the capacity for profit, wealth of all sorts and the highest value of philosophy, ideology and religion.Part 2 probes the view of Hodgkinson's leadership. As far as Hodgkinson is concerned, the central problem of administration/management is to reconcile the self-interest of the individual organizational member or client with the collective interest of the organization.Part 3 discusses the view of Hodgkinson's educational leadership. Hodgkinson asserts educational leadership to be a moral art firmly. Administration or leadership in its fullest sense is more concerned with values than with facts. The central problem to resolve for educational leadership itself is a value problem. The value is very complicated. According to Hodgkinson, there are four different kinds of value paradigms during the process of educational leadership: Type I, Type Ha, Type IIb and Type III. Theory of educational leadership is related to practice through value praxis only.Part 4 comments on theories of Hodgkinson's educational leadership telegraphically on the basis of the development of theories of western educational management.