Leading from the Inside Out

Abstract

Leading involves more than pointing in an educationally desired direction. It also means imaginatively seeking out a direction and moving that way oneself because of one’s embodied beliefs about educational ends. To lead with integrity for educational life means to be clear about the values that enliven one’s sense of purpose and to develop a nuanced understanding of the complexities of reality, the paradoxical workings of the perceptual processes, and the expansive psychology of the self-system.