Mindful Leadership for Schools: Wisdom from Confucius

Description

The world today needs mindful leaders who care for the holistic well-being of their students and staff, inspiring all to renew schools with compassion, creativity and courage. But what is mindful leadership, and how can leaders create and sustain mindful schools? Mindful Leadership for Schools draws on the educational thought of Confucius and explores how Confucian mindful leadership (CML) can offer a solution. This book shows how a Confucian mindful leader is one who attends to self, others, things and events respectfully, promoting the virtues of love, harmony and social justice through personal cultivation, role-modelling, community-building, coaching and initiating reforms. Tan explores how this approach complements and strengthens authentic, instructional, distributed and transformational leadership strategies, offering a novel and practical leadership approach that combines ancient wisdom and modern educational research.

Charlene Tan is Professor in Educational Policy and Leadership in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

This book is an excellent reference for moral education at the modern schools. In particular, it reinterprets Confucianism through the concept of "Mindfulness" in Buddism. and suggests educational models, giving great educational implications. Furthermore, this book is expected to have a great influence not only to the oriental academic society but also to the western. * Gyun Yeol Park ???, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea *