Archive for August, 2010
Questions that guide my work lately…
My recent research into issues of educational leadership, homelessness, and inter-organizational collaboration tends to relate to the following questions: 1) How do educational leaders (both school and community-based) learn about, draw from, and respond to their surrounding communities’ conditions? and 2) How do leaders help foster appropriate and sustainable intra- and inter-organizational systems of practice?
Read moreBurt’s Structural Holes
Ronald Burt’s (1992) book entitled, “Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition” provides an interesting analysis of relationship network utility. I’ll be drawing from this work in my fall course (School-Community Relations). Here’s one excerpt from the Burt text that describes how issues of network size and diversity are relevant: “Network size and diversity under […]
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