Transcript EDUC564Day3

Faculty of Education
ED 564: Administration
of Inclusive Schools
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Inclusive Leadership
Class Outline
The Great Inclusion Debate
The Allegory of the Cave
Leadership
Types of Leadership
Inclusive Leadership
Final Thoughts
Presentation - Miranda
The Great Inclusion Debate
The newly appointed Minister of Education
has convened an expert panel of teachers
and administrators to review the policy of
inclusion in Nova Scotia schools. In your
group, prepare a brief to present to the
Minister indicating arguments in favour of
and opposed to the practice of inclusion.
The Great Inclusion Debate
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PROS
Less likely to stigmatize; more
natural and reflective of real
world
Develops more positive
attitudes
More opportunity for interaction
Research says inclusion works
Teachers and parents prefer
inclusion
Students prefer full inclusion
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CONS
Environment too manipulated
to reflect real world
Student relationships are
unilateral, and occur in-school
only
Opportunities for intense
instruction are reduced
Research says a range of
settings works better
Teachers and parents prefer
range of settings
Students prefer range of
settings
The Allegory of the Cave
Based on your viewing of this allegory, can
you make any links between Plato's
allegory and its relevance to the notion of
leadership.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ&feature=related)
Types of Leadership
1)Managerial/Technical Leadership
Original view was leadership is a science
that prescribes certain courses of action
Under the new form of managerialism,
administration is a technical operation
designed to execute policies formulated
elsewhere
2)Humanistic Leadership
Centrality of human beings
Who you are impacts how you do your job
Also advocated that leaders were different
and could influence others
3)Transformational leadership
Borrows from managerial and humanistic
approaches
Emphasizes talents of leader
Leaders influence others to embrace a
vision
Assumes leader can single-handedly raise
performance of others
Emphasizes only the talented
Inclusive Leadership
Is a collective process in which everyone
is included or fairly represented
Inclusive leadership aims to achieve
inclusion in all aspects of schooling and
beyond the school to the local and global
community, and it does so through a
process that is itself inclusive
 What are the barriers to inclusive leadership?
 1)entrenched hierarchy
 2)manner in which people perceive leadership in
terms of positions or individuals who act in
certain exclusive ways
 3)difficulty of linking participation in decisionmaking processes to the ends for which these
processes are organized
Final Thoughts
Inclusion is characterized by pros and
cons
The style of leadership one embraces will
inevitably impact the approach one takes
in addressing exclusion
Each leadership style has strengths and
weaknesses
Perhaps what is needed is for leaders to
embrace a pluralistic perspective which
capitalizes on the positive aspects of the
competing perspectives