Local and global values dilemma in educational leadership: inferences for future
in: Educational Leaders As Change Agents Meeting An Uncertain Future, Aksu, M., Sabancı, A., Aksu T., Editor, Anı Yayıncılık, Ankara, pp.149-170, 2013
- Publication Type: Book Chapter / Chapter Research Book
- Publication Date: 2013
- Publisher: Anı Yayıncılık
- City: Ankara
- Page Numbers: pp.149-170
- Editors: Aksu, M., Sabancı, A., Aksu T., Editor
- Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
The term value can be asserted to be both locally and globally sensitive. The question is
whether global and local necessarily oppose one another or are supporting processes.
The answer to this question in the mind of a leader is vital because it is likely to affect
his/her reasoning and behaviour. There is a common agreement in the related literature
that values of the leaders are affected by many variables such as family, friends,
religion, education, the media, geographic roots, technology, and current events and on
the other hand, their values have a strong affect on their perceptions of situations, the
solutions generated regarding problems, interpersonal relationships, perceptions of
individual and organizational successes, perception of ethical and unethical behaviours,
their attitude towards organizational pressures and goals and their managerial
performance. So to say, values have the potential and the power to affect the perceptions
of appropriate ends, but also the perceptions of the appropriate means to those ends. The
purpose of this article is to examine the existing literature regarding the dilemma
between local and global values in leadership and further, to draw outcomes for future
of educational leaders.
Key words: Educational leadership, leadership values, globalization, decentralization,
leadership in the future