Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

Education institutional administrators and their professional staff require enhanced leadership and management tools to help them successfully navigate the multi- faceted and often precarious pathways of the future. Creative and Compassionate Leadership: A Model for Education Administrators is a practical guide to assist seasoned and entering professionals to the education administration field in becoming more fluent in the traditions of and approaches to the action of leadership. The focus of the paper is on the elements and traits of compassionate and creative leaders compiled from interviews with effective education administrators. The symmetry, complexity, sturdiness, artificiality, outgoingness, systematic, and at times frenetic activities of education administration are balanced in this paper with an approach to the creative side of the human condition - the informal, sublime, natural, profound freedom and unconventionality of the creative education administrator.