ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a practical theory of educative leadership by conducting an ideas audit of the preceding chapters. It relies on a theme search to determine the structure of an appropriate argument. It also uses the emergent concepts and themes to test and develop the web of belief that the writers set out in Chapter 1. This process of theory construction was informed by the responses of over one thousand educational practitioners in various international workshops and conferences, and by the work of other theorists, especially the philosophical research program of Christopher Hodgkinson (1978; 1981; 1983; 1986).
