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Changing meaning: The leading way

In studying leading as a way of changing meaning, this research documents a journey of inner exploration amongst five self-nominated leaders in education. In contrast to change limited by outer dimensional structure, changing meaning in an inner dimension was seen as the necessary complement in creating real difference in educators and in educating. Over a period of almost a year, the leaders participated in an online project, travelling together through email dialogue focused around leading, changing and meaning. In this, they experimented with a changing way of researching, developing a personalised space of changing in which they could truth-test their thoughts and feelings about the multiple facets of leading and meaning. Such a space - interstitial to their outer working and inner personal lives, but deeply connective of both - was found useful in supporting coherent change processes in the participant leaders. (Please note that frontispiece and endpiece illustrations have been not been included as they are subject to copyright.)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/217339
Date January 2004
CreatorsSytsma, Sandra, seishin@spiderweb.com.au
PublisherCentral Queensland University. Education
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Rightshttp://www.library.cqu.edu.au/cqulibrary/disclaimer.htm), Copyright Sandra Sytsma

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