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Mid-Level Leadership as a Lever for Human Flourishing in a Canadian Educational Institution /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mid-Level Leadership as a Lever for Human Flourishing in a Canadian Educational Institution // Georganne Oldham.
Author:	Oldham, Georganne,
Description:	1 electronic resource (215 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International87-05A.
Subject:	Educational leadership. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=32281496
ISBN:	9798297990999

Mid-Level Leadership as a Lever for Human Flourishing in a Canadian Educational Institution /
Oldham, Georganne,

Mid-Level Leadership as a Lever for Human Flourishing in a Canadian Educational Institution /Georganne Oldham. - 1 electronic resource (215 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: A.

Despite decades of leadership evolution, problems related to human flourishing have not been adequately addressed by traditional approaches. Neoliberal and hierarchical frameworks have led to policies and practices that substantially transformed organizations, while at the same time limiting efforts to respond to such challenges. Mid-level leaders remain underexamined in leadership research, leaving a gap for understanding their influence on these complex challenges. The purpose of this study was to collaborate with a team of mid-level leaders in a Canadian post-secondary institution to explore their influence on critical issues related to human flourishing. Through critical action research grounded in social constructionism, participants explored dominant systems, values, and practices, utilizing reflection, dialogue, and shared meaning-making processes. Core participants included mid-level leaders (directors, managers, coordinator, supervisor), each of whom was fully engaged in the four cycles of the action research process. Data collection included dialogue sessions, semi-structured interviews, and reflexive journals. Five supplemental division members also participated in one semi-structured interview. Key findings are organized around five interwoven themes: (a) achieving human flourishing through disruption of dominant, historical leadership norms, values and practices; (b) relational leadership as a transformative practice; (c) navigating power and agency in mid-level leadership; (d) reflexivity and the emotional weight of leadership, and (e) critique to construction: reimagining leadership. These findings affirm all five core tenets of critical leadership theory and extend them in important ways. Findings operationalize critical leadership praxis in mid-level leadership contexts and expand concepts of leadership to include embodied and emotional labour. The study positions human flourishing as a legitimate and necessary leadership goal, advances critical leadership studies from critique toward praxis, and highlights mid-level leaders as critical agents of change for human flourishing.

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ISBN: 9798297990999Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Educational leadership.
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