Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1 Leadership and Religious Schools: Introducing Some Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges Michael T. Buchanan -- 2 Responding to the Challenges of Globalization through an Education Anchored in Christian Anthropology Adrian-Mario Gellel -- A world of change -- The world of education -- Implications for effective leadership in faith schools -- The contribution of Catholic education -- Catholic understanding of the human person -- Implications for the Christian education-leader -- 3 The Miniaturization of Human Identity: The Human Subject as the Foundation for Leading and Learning Amidst Diversity Mario O. D'Souza CSB -- Cultural shift -- Human miniaturization -- Human identity and the common good -- The human subject as foundation -- The human subject and leading and learning amidst diversity -- Conclusion -- 4 A Human Rights-Based Curriculum for Religious Schools: The Responsibilities of School Leaders Petro du Preez -- Emerging human rights discourses and the changing roles of school leaders: Introductory comments -- Research in human rights education: From awareness, values and transformation to accountability and full responsibility -- The nature of a human rights-based curriculum -- The dialectical nature of cultural and religious values andhuman rights values -- The responsibilities of school leaders in a humanrights-based curriculum -- Leading from the intersection: Some concluding reflections -- 5 Adopting a Peace-Education Approach in Religious Schools: Perspectives from Bosnia-Herzegovina Pauline Kollontai -- Models of religious schools -- Controlling religious influences in state education -- A religious politicization of education -- Putting peace education into the curriculum.

The leadership challenge: Creating inclusive learning communities -- Conclusion -- 6 Education towards Peace Leadership: The Case of Jewish and Muslim School Students in Israel Yaacov Yablon -- Peace education -- The philosophy of peace education -- Enhancing peace via contact between conflict groups -- Affective aspects of peace-education programmes -- Religion and peace building -- Encounters between Israeli Jewish and Muslim pupils -- Forms of peace-enhancing intervention -- The role of school leadership -- Conclusion -- 7 Loneliness, Solitude and Inclusion for Leaders Julian Stern -- Inclusion and exclusion: How to include without excluding -- Selfhood, individualism and loneliness -- Understanding loneliness of pupils, staff and school leaders -- Good solitude and good loneliness -- Conclusion: Overcoming and hosting loneliness -- 8 Leadership Dimensions in the Exercise of Leadership in a Religious School Context Michael T. Buchanan -- Religious leadership -- Faith leadership -- Spiritual leadership -- Ministerial leadership -- Curriculum leadership -- Educational leadership -- Conclusion -- 9 Learning to Lead through Service: Key Insights for Effective Leadership in Schools Shane Lavery -- Educational leadership -- Servant leadership -- Service learning -- Service learning and teacher leadership development -- A Christian service-learning unit -- Methodology -- The nature of Christian service learning -- Social awareness -- Transformation -- Supervisors' comments: Leadership attitudes -- Conclusion -- 10 Religious Schools Engaging with a Secular Age Kath Engebretson -- Taylor's stages one and two: The separation of church and state and the decline of religion -- Taylor's stage three: The search for the authentic self -- Secularization and young people who attend religiously affiliated schools.

The project of the religiously affiliated school: Religious education and religious socialization -- Inculturation: Matteo Ricci and China -- The Confucian Lord of Heaven and the Supreme Being of Christianity -- Ricci and the Chinese ancestral rites -- Accommodation -- Theology of faithful presence within -- Is 'changing the world' the right goal? -- How should Christians engage the world? A theology of 'faithful presence within' -- Implications of 'faithful presence within' for religious educators in schools -- Accommodation and faithful presence in the religiously affiliated school -- Conclusion -- 11 The Hizmet Educational Movement: Its Insights for Educational Leadership Muhsin Canbolat, Ismail Albayrak and Kath Engebretson -- Introduction -- Brief biography of Gulen -- The educational vision of Gulen -- Commentaries on Gulen's educational vision -- Gulen's educational philosophy in practice -- Leadership in Hizmet schools -- Conclusion: Gulen movement schools and worldwide education -- Index.