ABSTRACT
Thomas J. Sergiovanni is Lillian Radford Professor of education and administration and senior fellow at the Center for Educational Leadership at Trinity University in San Antonio. Prior to joining the Trinity faculty he was professor of educational administration and supervision at the University of Illinois for eighteen years. Dr. Sergiovanni serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education and Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice. He has broad interests in the areas of school leadership and the supervision and evaluation of teaching. Among his recent publications are Moral Leadership: Getting to the Heart of School Improvement (1992), Building Community in Schools (1994), Leadership for the School House: How Is It Different? Why Is It Important? (1996), The Lifeworld of Leadership: Creating Culture, Community, and Personal Meaning in Our Schools (2000), The Principalship: A Reflective Practice Perspective, Fourth Edition (2001), Leadership: What’s in It for Schools? (2001), and Supervision: A Redefinition (2002).
