How to Become an Educational Leader in Five Simple Steps: An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Decision Making (Relative to Time and Temporal Situatedness)

摘要

This study focuses on the phenomenon of time and decision-making in schools by asking the phenomenological question u27 What does it look like to make decisions (relative to time and temporal situatedness)? u27 It explores this question by working through the ideas of Heideggeru27s Nothingness, Merleau-Pontyu27s corporeality, van Manenu27s hermeneutics, Habermasu27 crisis, Bollnowu27s critique, Derridau27s deconstruction, Foucaultu27s poststructuralism, Nietzscheu27s free will, Innisu27 political history, Walkeru27s music history, Hargreavesu27 Critical Theory, Mazisu27 dance, Morganu27s metaphors, Wittgensteinu27s language logic, and Caseyu27s remembering. Essentially, the thesis attempts to raise to awareness the intellectual pause, the moment that gives us deep appreciation for our roles as decision-makers and an awareness of decisions about to be made. If we are nothing more than movers-moving-in-endless-motion through a spiraling maze of decision-making, then as situated beings we are faced with the possibility of thinking ourselves back to awareness, thus entering into genuine dialogue with one another.