Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves

Educational preparation to strengthen nursing leadership.

Two of the 8 recommendations in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies report on the future of nursing call for increased leadership by nurses. While nurses alone cannot transform health care, they do need a stronger voice in health care systems, and they need better educational preparation as members of the health care leadership team.

Promoting Inclusive Holistic Graduate Admissions in Educational Leadership Preparation Programs

Aspiring and practicing school leaders often identify graduate degrees as playing a significant role in achieving educational access and engaging in building, district-wide, regional, state, and national decision-making regarding practice and policy impacting marginalized populations in K–12 U.S. schools. The rationale behind initiating discourse on graduate student involvement grows out of cur...

Student-centredness: the link between transforming students and transforming ourselves

It is widely accepted in the higher education literature that a student-centred approach is pedagogically superior to a teacher-centred approach. In this paper, we explore the notion of student-centredness as a threshold concept and the implications this might have for academic staff development. We argue that the term student-centred in the Rogerian sense implies a focus on the person of the s...

Educational Leadership.

• Master of Arts in Education and Human Development in the field of assessment, testing, and measurement in education (http://bulletin.gwu.edu/education-human-development/ masters-program/education-human-developmentassessment-testing-and-measurement) • Master of Arts in Education and Human Development in the field of education policy studies (http://bulletin.gwu.edu/ education-human-development...

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