Educational Leadership: Islamic Religious, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology Perspectives

Alternative Perspectives on Leadership: Integrating Transformational Leadership with Confucian Philosophy

This paper presents a model for integrating elements of Transformational Leadership with Confucian Philosophy. The various concepts of each perspective are discussed with special emphasis on efforts to note similarities in the two perspectives. Examples of how leaders could apply the integration of these two perspectives are presented for those working in the social service field.

Introduction [to Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology]

Philosophy of Technology Assumptions in Educational Technology Leadership

A qualitative study using grounded theory methods was conducted to (a) examine what philosophy of technology assumptions are present in the thinking of K-12 technology leaders, (b) investigate how the assumptions may influence technology decision making, and (c) explore whether technological determinist assumptions are present. Subjects involved technology directors and instructional technology...

Theoretical Perspectives on Corporate Narrative Disclosures: New Insights from Psychology, Sociology, and Critical Perspectives

Theories from traditional finance (e.g. agency theory) are not suitable for impression management research as they are based on fundamental assumptions of manager and investor rationality. For the assumption that impression management results in capital misallocations to hold true requires alternative theoretical perspectives. This paper develops theoretical perspectives on corporate narrative ...

Experimental Philosophy the Concept of Optimism in Educational Psychology

English translation © 2003 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Russian text “Eksperimental’naia filosofiia (E.V. Il’enkov i A.I. Meshcheriakov),” in E.V. Il’enkov: lichnost’ i tvorchestvo, ed. I.P Farman (Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kul’tury, 1999), pp. 172–96. Evald Vasil’evich Ilyenkov was only two months younger than Aleksandr Ivanovich Meshcheriakov—a doctor of psychological sciences and posthumous winn...