Putting Heart and Soul in Education: Spiritually Intelligent Servant-Leaders In Educational Institutions

Ruhsal zekâ ve hizmetkâr liderlik anlayışı birbiri ile çok yakın ilişkide olan iki ortaktır.İnsanlarla ilişkilerinin odak noktada olduğu diğer alanlarda olduğu gibi eğitim alanında daeğitimcilerin görevi, ruhsal zekâ yaklaşımıyla hedef kitlelerinin farklı beklentilerini,isteklerini öğrenmek ve bu görevlerle etkin biçimde başa çıkmaktır. Eğitimciler hem sınıfortamında hem de yönetsel düzeyde faaliyet gösteren liderler olarak, bağlı oldukları eğitimkurumlarında uyumlu iletişim iklimi oluşturmak için insancıl yaklaşımı benimseyen birerruhsal zekâlı hizmetkâr liderlere dönüşmelidirler.Bu çalışmanın birincil amacı, Türk yaşam dokusunun ayrılmaz parçaları olan ruhsallık,ruhsal zekâ ve hizmetkâr lider kavramlarını, bir arada kullanarak Türk literatürünekatmaktır. İkinci aşamada ise, literatür sınırları içinde ve eğitimci perspektifinden ruhsalzekâlı hizmetkâr liderlerin eğitim örgütlerindeki rolleri tartışmaktır.

Eğitime Kalbini ve Ruhunu Katmak: Eğitim Kurumlarında Ruhsal Zekâlı Hizmetkâr Liderler Olmak

Spiritual intelligence (SQ) and servant-leadership understandings are hand-in-glove partners. Like many other fields dealing with people, in education it is educators' duty to cope with different expectations, wishes and duties of their target audiences with virtuous approach of SQ. Therein educators have to enhance their humanistic understanding to create harmonious communication climates in their educational institutions that mainly require and value spiritually intelligent servant-leaders working both in the classroom and on the administrative level. The aim of this paper in the first place is to highlight concepts that are the cardinal values of Turkish daily fabric like spirituality, spiritual intelligence, and servant-leadership. Even though these inseparable values of Turkish culture are well known and can be found in the fabric of daily life, it is hard to find all of them discussed under a common topic related with each other in literature. In the second place, within the limits of the paper the undeniable importance of spiritually intelligent servant-leaders' (SQS-Ls) contributions in educational institutions is explained and the understanding from the educators' perspective is discussed within the limits of literature search.

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