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Student Leadership In Catholic Schools: A Matter Of Service!, Gregory Hine, Shane D. Lavery
Student Leadership In Catholic Schools: A Matter Of Service!, Gregory Hine, Shane D. Lavery
Gregory S.C. Hine
Schools are elementary breeding grounds for student leadership development. School principals, by virtue of their standing in their school, have a pivotal role in facilitating student leadership development initiative s. In essence, they are stewards of student leadership (Lavery & Hine, 2012). This paper examines the notion of student leadership from the standpoint of eight Catholic secondary school principals. It initially explores their perception of the ethos underpinning student leadership. On this point, all principals posited that servant leadership must be the overarching model informing student leadership. The paper then investigates those ways these principals perceived student leadership functioning in …