ABSTRACT
This chapter is the capstone for a presentation regarding connoisseurship as leadership performance and as a perspective to restore the human side of educational leadership to at least an equal partnership with the intellectual and cognitive side. It explores the roots of connoisseurship in craft knowledge and what it can offer to the practice of leadership in schools. The chapter closes with an exploration of how preparing leader connoisseurs could change the traditional manner of training leaders in university settings and how that would alter the regnant practices and approaches in use today. At its core, however, is the juxtaposition of connoisseurship as a completely different cosmology regarding educational leadership. The dominant model of leadership as expressed in traditional educational leadership textbooks rests on social science models and approaches to the detriment of alternative perspectives that include aspects of leader actions which may be considered non-rational.
