Striepe Michelle, O'Donoghue Thomas

Abstract：Over the past two decades faith-based schools have expanded in number, grown in diversity, and become an important part of education systems worldwide. As a result, a rich research agenda in the field has emerged. One aspect of this agenda relates to school leadership. What is particularly neglected is research on the impact of leadership theory on school leaders in faith-based schools. While large scale surveys are to be welcomed in this regard, these should be complemented by a large number of case studies. This paper, which arose from a study on a Catholic school in Western Australia, illustrates one direction which such case study work could take. It portrays how leadership theory has found its way into the cognitive frameworks used by leaders in the school to guide their work and the nature of the particular leadership theory they have assimilated within these frameworks. In particular, it indicates how one model of school leadership, namely, that of 'servant leadership', has been embraced as an overarching guide within the cognitive frameworks used by the school's leaders to guide their work and that it is an approach that is seen as being appropriate for a Catholic school.

Keywords：catholic schools; educational leadership; cognitive analysis

总结：

1、在过去的二十年里，宗教学校的数量不断增长，种类不断多样化，并且已经成为全球教育系统的一个重要组成部分。因此，很多对该领域的研究已经出现。这一研究的一个方面涉及到学校领导。特别容易忽视的是，在宗教学校中，领导理论对学校领导者所带来的影响。虽然在这方面有过大规模调查，但这些应辅之以大量的案例研究。

2、本文以对澳大利亚西部一所天主教学校为研究对象，指明了这样的案例可行的一个方向。它描述了领导理论是如何发现进入领导者在学校使用认知框架来指导他们工作并且在这些框架中吸收特定的领导理论的特质。特别是，它表明学校领导的一种模式，即“仆人领导”是如何在认知框架中引导人们工作的，而这被认为是一种适合在天主教学校使用的方法。

来源:Education Research & Perspectives. 2014, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p130-153. 24p.