Developing Global Citizens: Perceptions Regarding Educational Leadership in an International Expatriate School

International expatriate schools require educational leaders to guide culturally diverse stakeholders as they prepare students to address world problems. In the United States, effective educational leadership has been demonstrated as necessary to implement research-based practices. However, research...

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Main Author: Lewis, Alicia Hunter
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Language:en
Published: ScholarWorks 2015
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1901
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spelling ndltd-waldenu.edu-oai-scholarworks.waldenu.edu-dissertations-30042019-10-30T01:08:37Z Developing Global Citizens: Perceptions Regarding Educational Leadership in an International Expatriate School Lewis, Alicia Hunter International expatriate schools require educational leaders to guide culturally diverse stakeholders as they prepare students to address world problems. In the United States, effective educational leadership has been demonstrated as necessary to implement research-based practices. However, researchers have not yet established the leadership needed from expatriate kindergarten through Grade 12 school leaders seeking to develop global citizens. This gap leads to the question of how international expatriate educational leaders demonstrate empathetic, emotionally self-managed, or interculturally sensitive skills when meeting a school's global-minded strategic plan. The purpose of this case study was to describe expatriate school leaders' perceptions of how they and their peers demonstrate these skills. The conceptual framework included distributed leadership, emotional intelligence, and intercultural sensitivity in the context of global citizenship. Data from an expatriate middle school in China included interviews with school leaders, documents, and researcher notes. The results indicated that expatriate leaders demonstrated empathy through social responsibility, emotional self-management through personal and professional competence, and intercultural sensitivity through active civic engagement. International expatriate schools may benefit if educational leaders demonstrate support and concern and provide examples of the global-mindedness expected of students. These results can guide faculty members' professional competencies toward implementing instructional programs that target the development of global citizens. Social change could result from international expatriate schools applying described models of distributed leadership toward a unified and socially just purpose. 2015-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1901 https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3004&context=dissertations Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies en ScholarWorks distributed leaderships educational leadership emotional intelligence global citizenship intercultural sensitivity international education Educational Administration and Supervision
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topic distributed leaderships
educational leadership
emotional intelligence
global citizenship
intercultural sensitivity
international education
Educational Administration and Supervision
spellingShingle distributed leaderships
educational leadership
emotional intelligence
global citizenship
intercultural sensitivity
international education
Educational Administration and Supervision
Lewis, Alicia Hunter
Developing Global Citizens: Perceptions Regarding Educational Leadership in an International Expatriate School
description International expatriate schools require educational leaders to guide culturally diverse stakeholders as they prepare students to address world problems. In the United States, effective educational leadership has been demonstrated as necessary to implement research-based practices. However, researchers have not yet established the leadership needed from expatriate kindergarten through Grade 12 school leaders seeking to develop global citizens. This gap leads to the question of how international expatriate educational leaders demonstrate empathetic, emotionally self-managed, or interculturally sensitive skills when meeting a school's global-minded strategic plan. The purpose of this case study was to describe expatriate school leaders' perceptions of how they and their peers demonstrate these skills. The conceptual framework included distributed leadership, emotional intelligence, and intercultural sensitivity in the context of global citizenship. Data from an expatriate middle school in China included interviews with school leaders, documents, and researcher notes. The results indicated that expatriate leaders demonstrated empathy through social responsibility, emotional self-management through personal and professional competence, and intercultural sensitivity through active civic engagement. International expatriate schools may benefit if educational leaders demonstrate support and concern and provide examples of the global-mindedness expected of students. These results can guide faculty members' professional competencies toward implementing instructional programs that target the development of global citizens. Social change could result from international expatriate schools applying described models of distributed leadership toward a unified and socially just purpose.
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title_short Developing Global Citizens: Perceptions Regarding Educational Leadership in an International Expatriate School
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title_full_unstemmed Developing Global Citizens: Perceptions Regarding Educational Leadership in an International Expatriate School
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