Authentic leadership for democracy in schools
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Date
2010
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Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Academic Leadership
Abstract
The main underlying value of authentic leadership is self awareness along with honesty,
truthfulness, loyalty, transparency and integrity. These values define the main characteristics of
authentic leadership, which this paper argues are the important values of democratic education
also. Leadership is an art of inspiring or influencing followers in order to achieve organization’s
goals. In any organization, there is always a need for strong leadership (Daft, 1999). It is well
established in literature that the success of an educational institution depends on the effectiveness
of leadership (Huber, 2004). In the late 20th century, various researches have appeared regarding
leadership styles like transactional and transformational, charismatic, visionary and inspirational
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Keywords
Democracy, Authentic Leadership, Democratic Education
Citation
Academic Leadership, Vol. 8 No. 2 Spring 2010