The Wounded Leader: Looking for the Good Story.

摘要: This study's purpose was to understand further "how" significant leadership crises create a very particular context for telling stories and, specifically, the lives of school leaders are affected by they tell. The study presents seven private and public who have experienced serious conflict, dilemma, or critical event in their practice that has some way profoundly "wounded" them. focused on leader's "narrative identity" determine "who" each case person had become story, story helped them "why." methodology ethnographic it required retrospective interviewing narrative analysis. Findings suggest difficult experiences evoked could be tentatively grouped common themes. storytellers chose restitution how problem fixed which echoes myth principal as hero; chaos near disaster notable what absent, is distressed without order coherence an uncertain future; quest, one leads new evolved story. All themes, however, apt present at different times stories. Another finding relates ways participants were self conscious aware themselves makers tellers, thus sense "witnesses" circumstances. (Contains 25 references.) (NKA) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied EDRS best can made from original document.