论可持续领导理论及其行动策略
摘要:可持续领导理论作为当代教育领导的一种新思潮,源于可持续发展思想在解决人类生存危机,推动工商组织永续发展中的有效运用与不断深化。这一领导理论顺应了教育领导学中一系列的研究转向,且合乎当下学校追寻可持续发展的现实要求。目前,该理论已得到西方学者的重视并积累了一定的研究成果,而我国学者对它的认知和研究还尚显薄弱。因而,本研究主要通过对可持续领导理论相关文献的梳理研读,尤其就国外学者在教育领域中可持续领导研究成果的分析比较、归纳总结,并通过个案学校的短期走访,丰富笔者对学校发展现状的感性体验,以期能够系统而深入地把握可持续领导理论,且更多地融入个人的思考和理解。
本研究的第二部分,即从可持续领导的概念解读、模型探究、理念提升入手,全面阐释可持续领导的理论内涵。笔者认为可持续领导是一种道德驱动、价值负载的系统性领导力,旨在推动个体、组织乃至整个社会的可持续发展,充分呈现出坚持发展性、体现包容性、维护正义性、正视复杂性的核心理念。研究的第三部分,则着眼于深入研究理论的兴起背景、思想来源和发展趋势。笔者发现可持续领导理论根植于大规模教育改革难以维系、教育领导角色需重新定位以及教育领导招募与留任面临危机的教育背景。该理论的生成有着丰厚的理论根基,主要得益于可持续发展思想的启示、组织管理理论的演变与推动以及教育领导问题研究的积淀。研究的第四部分,则充分呈现出可持续领导理论所具有的现实意义。因为可持续领导极为关注并能有力地应对学校发展中存在的效率与标准化的束缚、厌学情绪的滋生、职业倦怠的蔓延、校长更替问题的凸显等现实困境。并且,能以转变传统学校隐喻,创建“学习共同体”及着力营造信任合作的学校文化为突破口来开拓学校可持续发展的新路向。而研究的最后部分,旨在系统地探索可持续领导的行动策略。可持续领导作为“行动中的系统思考者”,正是在维护学生的深广学习与关注成员持续性专业发展、实施分布式领导与构建领导共同体、规划领导更替与助推延续传承、注重能力建构与深化系统变革之脚踏实地的集体行动中推动着学校的可持续发展。由此可见,可持续领导乃是一种理论意义与实用价值兼备的领导理论。
关键词:可持续领导;学校的可持续发展;核心理念;行动策略
Abstract: As the new trend of contemporarily educational leadership, the theory of sustainable leadership derives from the idea of sustainable development effectively used and continually deepened by solving human's survival crisis and promoting industrial and commercial organizations' sustainability. This theory conforms to various research transitions in educational leadership, and corresponds to the realistic requirements of schools' pursuits for sustainable development. At present, western scholars have already attached great importance to this theory and have made some achievements, while our scholars' acquaintances and researches seem relatively weak. Thus, author of this study mainly sorted out and read relevant literatures, particularly made analysis, comparison and summary of western scholars' findings regarding to sustainable leadership in educational field so as to grasp this theory deeply and systematically. Furthermore, the author made a short-term interview in a case school to enrich perceptual experience of schools' current state and integrate personal thought and comprehension.
Through concept interpretation, model exploration and idea abstraction, the second part of this study expounds the theoretical connotation of sustainable leadership comprehensively. The author concludes sustainable leadership as a systematic leadership which is moral-driven and value-loaded. This leadership is aimed at promoting persons', organizations' and the whole society's sustainable development. Its core ideas include persisting in development, embodying inclusiveness, preserving justice and facing complexity. The third part of this study intensively focuses on the emergence background, ideological source and development trend of this theory. Sustainable leadership is mainly rooted in the following educational context covering the difficult extension of wide-scale educational reform, the redefinition of educational leaders and the crisis of the leaders' recruitment and appointment. The generation of this theory is also based on rich theoretical foundations such as the enrichment of sustainable development, the evolution and motivation of organizational and managerial theories and the theoretical accumulation of educational leadership research. The fourth part of this study folly demonstrates the practical significance of sustainable leadership. Because sustainable leadership greatly emphasizes and powerfully deals with many actual difficulties of schools' development such as the constraint of efficiency and standards, the breeding of students' tired of learning, the spread of job burnout and the prominent principal succession problem. Moreover, it demands to change schools' traditional metaphor into "learning community" and creates trust and cooperative school culture to explore the new orientation of schools' development. The final part is aimed at exploring action strategies of sustainable leadership systematically. As the "system thinkers in action", sustainable leadership depends on steadfastly collective actions to promote schools' development including preserving students' deep learning and caring faculty's continuing professional development, implementing distributive leadership and building leading community, planning succession and facilitating heritage, stressing capacity building and deepening systematic reform. Consequently, sustainable leadership has both theoretical significance and practical values.
Keywords: sustainable leadership, school's sustainable development, core ideas, action strategies
(金惠 教育领导与管理专业 南京师范大学硕士学位论文 2013年5月)