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Collaborative Leadership Through Leaderful Classroom Practices: Everybody is a Leader
Collaborative Leadership Through Leaderful Classroom Practices: Everybody is a Leader
Collaborative Leadership Through Leaderful Classroom Practices: Everybody is a Leader
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Collaborative Leadership Through Leaderful Classroom Practices: Everybody is a Leader

By Soyhan Egitim

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Revisiting our leadership identity each time before we walk into a classroom can give us an opportunity to re-examine what leadership tenets we demonstrate in the classroom and to what extent our leadership practices foster or limit our students’ growth. This book attempts to shed light on the impact of language teachers’ leadership identity on their pedagogical and class management choices. It proposes a new pedagogical framework, Leaderful Classroom Practices which emerge through social, relational, and dynamic interactions between the teacher and students. Establishing an open, democratic, and participatory learning environment for all learners is a major leadership responsibility of teachers, and this book intends to demonstrate how to accomplish this mission both in theory and practice.

Excerpt from the author's preface (slightly modified): "One of the objectives of this book is to question whether my perceptions concerning language education align with the notion of providing students with open, democratic, and participatory educational environments. Furthermore, the book also intends to delve deeper into the pedagogical implications of leadership based on power and authority in the language classroom. Leadership is no longer about information sharing and decision-making. It is about listening intently and being open to learning from others, even when those others are meant to be your students. Given that language learning is a collaborative endeavor, where two or more people need to interact with one another so that some learning can happen, everyone needs to become an initiator. This notion aligns with the leadership identity I present in this book. Collaborative leadership is based on the premise of sharing leadership with others. It is fostered through the humanistic values of liberty, equity, and justice. Promoting these values to establish an open, democratic, and participatory learning environment for all learners is a major leadership responsibility of teachers. This book demonstrates how to accomplish that mission both in theory and practice."

LanguageEnglish
PublisherCandlin & Mynard ePublishing Limited
Release dateMar 22, 2022
ISBN9781005383138
Collaborative Leadership Through Leaderful Classroom Practices: Everybody is a Leader
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Soyhan Egitim

Soyhan Egitim, EdD, has lived and worked in multi-cultural societies including Turkey, where he is originally from, Canada, and Japan. Since 2006, he has worked as an English language teacher in a range of educational settings in the Greater Tokyo Area. Upon completing his MA in TESOL at the University of Chichester in 2011, he pursued an academic career in Japan. In 2020, he was awarded a Doctorate in Education from Northeastern University in Boston, where he concentrated on collaborative leadership in the Japanese higher education contexts. Currently, he serves as an assistant professor at Toyo University where he teaches English and intercultural communication courses. As a multilingual expert in intercultural communication, language education, and inclusive leadership practices, Dr. Soyhan Egitim has strived to promote open, participatory, and equitable language education through academic lectures, publications, presentations, and training workshops. His publication, “Collaborative leadership in English language classrooms: Engaging learners in leaderful classroom practices” (Egitim, 2021a), laid the foundation for the main ideas discussed in this book.

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