Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives – PDF

Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives is a valuable interdisciplinary survey text on leadership theory that offers critical perspectives. This textbook is specifically designed for graduate and undergraduate classrooms and provides a comprehensive overview of essential theories related to leadership studies. The book guides readers through increasingly complex ways in which theory can be deconstructed and reconstructed to enhance practice and advance social justice. It is infused with critical perspectives developmentally, featuring critically reflective questions, compelling examples, and multiple approaches to concept illustration that help cultivate readers’ abilities to engage as critical learners. The textbook includes powerful counter-narratives from accomplished leaders across a broad range of fields, including Eboo Patel, Felice Gorordo, and Mary Morten. These narratives offer a range of insights on the challenges and rewards of leadership. Furthermore, the facilitator’s guide and instructor’s website supplement the book with case studies, sample syllabi, structured dialogues, and learning activities tied to every chapter. This book provides a much-needed solution to some critical issues that other leadership texts tend to overlook. For example, most leadership books limit the application of theory to a singular disciplinary context or omit important ways in which research evolves the understanding of theory. Also, some lack critical evaluation of theories, which diminishes the ability to translate theory to practice. 978-1118864159 Readers of this eBook will learn the nature, origin, and evolution of specific theories, understand and apply them using critical perspectives, and consider the influences of ethics and justice, social location, and globalization. If you are forced to cobble together course materials from multiple piecemeal sources, then Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives is the much-needed solution for you.