The Leadership Identity Journey takes readers on a breathtaking, all-consuming, transformative journey. The invitation is to think of your life as a journey that follows a mythic path. By doing so, new possibilities emerge for thinking about leadership identity and preparation, as well as artistic research and the education field. The perspectives described in this book are supported by school leaders' insights into powerful iconic photographs relative to the five mythic life phases: the human condition, trials in life, human triumph, human transformation, and human crossing, with the addition of leadership as a dimension of the life-journey model. The authors conducted their study using selected photographs framed by the universal mythic framework inspired by mythologist Joseph Campbell.

By Carol A. Mullen; Fenwick W. English and William A. Kealy

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword: Confessions of a (Reforming) Structural-Functionalist-Karen Seashore Louis
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sketching the Universal Leadership Journey
Chapter 2: Witnessing Educational Leaders on the Mythic Journey
Chapter 3: Seeing, Believing, and Constructing Meaning
Chapter 4: Describing Relevance for Leadership Practice
Chapter 5: Revealing Relevance for Practice, Preparation, and Research
Coda
References
About the Authors