What is ‘the public’ and why is it important, and how is it brought into being, and supported? Stakeholder groups and identity politics. What it means to be a citizen. Leadership, and followership are two sides of the citizenship ‘coin’.
In considering teacher preparation programs, the question is asked – Does any Faculty of Education illuminate the unique characteristics of teaching in a public school system as compared to any other?
I am in Banff, with about 1,100 teachers, researchers and academics from at least 10 countries around the world. We are brought together for uLead. This conference, organized by the
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“Creating Citizens: Public Education and Liberal Democracy” (here), by Eamon Callan, is one of the books that has greatly influenced my thinking about public education. Callan begins his book with
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Particularly since the Presidential election in the U.S.A. last fall, the question haunts me. For me, the outcome of the election demonstrated the complete disappearance of the American public, replaced
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Public school education is the most important social institution in a civil democratic society, more important than health care, social welfare, or environmental protection, because, of course, none of
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This post is spurred by a couple of interesting pieces in the most recent edition of the University of Alberta New Trail (alumni magazine). Deconstructing Leadership (read here) and Leadership
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The Washington Post blog carried a post worth reading (here) on Thursday, about the death of James MacGregor Burns. Burns published his most notable work, Leadership, in 1978, and won
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