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Leadership Models

Modular Overview

Over the last 60 years, leadership has been examined by scholars from various perspectives. Scholars have examined leadership in terms of traits, behaviors, and situations. More recently, the terms transformational and transactional have been coined to describe two distinct leadership approaches. These perspectives and approaches have implicitly as well as explicitly guided the research in educational leadership. This is where we will begin our study of the research in educational leadership. In particular, in this first module we will identify and examine the various perspectives of leadership and subsequent models that have guided the research in this area.

Module Learning Objectives

By the completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Recognize and distinguish between different models / perspectives of leadership (Case).

2. Analyze the different ways in which leadership is addressed in the scholarly research literature (SLP).

3. Identify and discuss one or more areas of possible research interest in educational leadership  (TD).