TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ma,Chenwei
AU  - Shouse,Roger C.
TI  - Untethering educational leadership: cases and contexts from Chinese cinema 
T2  - Routledge focus
SN  - 9781032723624
U1  - 371.2011 MAC 2024 23/eng/20231023
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Educational leadership
KW  - China
KW  - Education in motion pictures
KW  - Mass media and education
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Lingdao, the Chinese word for leadership, is rarely used to denote acts of social persuasion that occur outside of contexts of formal rank or status. However, the ubiquity of informal leadership in China raises a number of practical and theoretical questions. Based on an analysis of selected Chinese cinematic works depicting settings of educational practice and policy, the book explores how "Western" understandings of leadership emerge from these texts to form discursive media for social change. It also offers a new understanding of lingdao and leadership; how they represent a natural human desire, regardless of formal rank or position, to mobilize collective will, change minds, and achieve social change. The book will be of interest to professional scholars and graduate students of Chinese culture, educational leadership, mass media, and popular culture"--
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