On track to develop mastery of one self, what is your approach to education and learning? Layer 7: My approach to educational practice Continuing on from my previous blogs in this series: as I have indicated in prior blogs “I have been fortunate in my educational practice career to have taught across different eras, across a diverse number of fields...
Category: Leadership
All things related to leadership: personal, family, community, educational, organisational, discipline, field, industry, national or global. Charismatic, anointment, appointment or democratically elected. Examples of people and processes, habits and rituals, influencers of significant events, for the benefit of mankind, greatness, for the undoing of mankind, that caused the deprivation of significant peoples, flawed individuals or collectives, their failings, their impropriety. All matters related to those who practice the many and varied styles of leadership….
Educational Philosophy Part 2
Know one self, develop mastery of one self Vision Blueprint (2015) Continuing on from my previous blogs in this series; I am a practitioner across multiple disciplines. My formal post-compulsory education qualifications include engineering, business, governance, teaching, education and sound production. I have held coal face type positions, project management and consultancy positions, numerous senior and executive management positions...
Doctoral Research Study – Part 1
My journey begins…. (Page 2014a) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2014b) for the previous blog. Year 2015: 1st Observation Commencing the doctoral program, I had a relative clear idea of my proposed research study problem. I say relative as, as I have progressed through the many twists and turns of...
Pre-Doctoral Research Study – Part 2
A year to remember…. (Page 2014a) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2014b) for the previous blog. My life – music-making and education & learning My journey in music-making commenced a number of decades ago. I made music via physical instruments. I strummed chords on a guitar or piano, hummed or...
Pre-Doctoral Research Study – Part 1
Preparing for my research study (Page 2014a) Learning and development Just being me…… I have never considered my self smart. My schooling test results were mainly above-average, but I worked consistently, and often for long hours in order to achieve these. I recall I often looked to those who got the top grades – those...
Educational Philosophy Part 1
Educational Philosophy Education, training and learning is about achieving a specific intended end goal for a group of learners; and having the learners attain the learning outcomes of a particular discipline (Bowe et al 1992). At the core of education, training and learning lays the education philosophy of the institution, which is then embedded within...
Leadership Part 5
Doctorate of Philosophy (Education) proposal Further to my previous 3 part blog series International Edcuation and Leadership, I decided to embark on a Doctorate of Philosophy in Education. The following represents my Doctoral Research Study proposal submitted in October 2000, and accepted by Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane Australia. ...
Leadership Part 4
Summary: Changing Agendas in Leadership In my last blog in this series, I attempted to analyse the QRITC institutional situation, showing how two issues of ‘Leadership and Management: Changing Agendas in Education’ can impact the effective delivery of quality contemporary commercial education. The issues I chose were: the debate between centralised and decentralised management forms (Smyth:1993:1)...
Leadership Part 3
Changing Agendas in Leadership The following essay represents an analysis of a current leadership issue in an organisational context, referencing appropriate literature. Glossary of Terms ARI – Australian Racing Industry QRI – Queensland Racing Industry QRITC – Queensland Racing Industry Training Centre SBM – Site – Based Management Introduction It would seem that economic rationalism...
Leadership Part 2
What is 21st Century Leadership? Many have attempted to define what leadership is. Galbraith for example: “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” (Galbraith:1977b)...