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Research on Spiritual Leadership and School Leadership Training

Ting Jing, Soonyew Ju

Abstract


A headmaster with strong school leadership is the key to the success of a school.Spiritual leadership theory can bring much benefi cial enlightenment to the cultivation of school leadership.This paper discusses the urgency of school leadership training from three aspects:the challenging campus environment,the internal requirements of the school and the external requirements of the school,comprehensively analyzes the connotation of spiritual leadership,and focuses on explaining the three attributes of spiritual leadership,namely,the independence of spirituality and religious belief;Spirituality and religious belief are interrelated;The relationship between spirituality and religious belief should be blurred,that is,spiritual and spiritual leadership in the workplace may or may not involve religious theory.Based on the theory of spiritual leadership,this paper puts forward the ways to cultivate school leadership.

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Spiritual leadership;School leadership;Cultivation pathway

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i9.8114

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