I guess we got our wires crossed a bit ...
I appreciate your words mg, but still I can't agree with you at all.
Here's another extract written by an English person, what's more, the person who is a member of Nottingham Trent University, UK.
All I want to point out is that we aren't always right about what we sometimes seem to be completely sure of.
Tears of joy, tears of despair: What makes headteachers cry?
Glynn Kirkham (Nottingham Trent University UK)
In the paper will be presented comments and commentaries from headteachers about incidents in their professional career at two ends of an emotional spectrum. Is it bi-polar or is there adjacency of this response to emotion? The causes and complexities of human activity may suggest that relationships are at the centre of all responses.
The paper is based on both a brief questionnaire followed up by opportunity samples of headteacher colleagues and their stories taken by the researcher during the last year. The research is firmly embedded in the field of examining emotional intelligence (Goleman, 1997) and explores the notion that headteachers as leaders should be emotionally resilient. The research is largely based in the relativist domain and makes use of narrative style recounting. Vignettes and “anchoring vignettes” (King, Murray, Salomon and Tandon 1997) are used to exemplify points and to illustrate the range of examples. The results of the questionnaire will be presented. There is, also, an analysis of those matters which cause headteachers to respond in a lachrymal manner according to type of incident and also in relation to the phase of education and gender of headteacher.
Questions are asked about the nature of the post of headteacher and the openness of emotion; when to do and when forbear. Suggestions are made for the development of school leaders as managers of their own emotions.
Glynn Kirkham
Senior Lecturer in Education Management
Nottingham Trent University
Lionel Robbins Building
Clifton Lane
Nottingham NG11 8NS
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I think it's about time we helped others... Don't you?