{"title":"Leading Toward Excellence … But Whose Excellence?","authors":"Mary Elizabeth Moore","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2219382","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Leadership toward excellence is vital in shaping human and ecological life, but who defines and benefits from excellence? In religious and educational communities, visions of excellence can serve to support the flourishing of life, and also to critique perspectives that reinforce individualism and hierarchical systems. This paper explores excellence in three narratives of leadership in public and religious spheres and in dialogue with religious education values. It underscores the importance of excellence that is developed by and for living communities within their larger contexts, and it concludes with five contributions from the field of religious education.","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2219382","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Leadership toward excellence is vital in shaping human and ecological life, but who defines and benefits from excellence? In religious and educational communities, visions of excellence can serve to support the flourishing of life, and also to critique perspectives that reinforce individualism and hierarchical systems. This paper explores excellence in three narratives of leadership in public and religious spheres and in dialogue with religious education values. It underscores the importance of excellence that is developed by and for living communities within their larger contexts, and it concludes with five contributions from the field of religious education.
期刊介绍:
Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.