Sources and Substance of Catholic High School Principals’ Notions of Servant-leadership

Abstract

Working together with six principals, we sought to explore the sources and substance of servant-leadership. In this chapter, we describe the role of their own parents and family members, employers, relationship and activity involvements, faith journeys and other sources that profoundly and subtly influenced their thinking about servant leadership. Of course, most of us would agree that our lives are social constructed to a great degree – and that the people in our lives leave their distinctive marks or signatures on the way we think and act. This was so for these six school leaders.