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Autor/in | Ceaser, Donovon Keith |
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Titel | 'Because the Ego Started to Grow Bigger than the Project Itself': A Case Study of Founder's Syndrome on an Educational Community of Practise |
Quelle | In: Ethnography and Education, 13 (2018) 4, S.459-476 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1745 -7823 |
DOI | 10.1080/17457823.2017.1384321 |
Schlagwörter | Case Studies; Communities of Practice; Nonprofit Organizations; Power Structure; Service Learning; Urban Areas; Agricultural Education; Leadership Styles; School Administration; Administrator Attitudes; Profiles; Teacher Student Relationship; Leadership Role; Teacher Dismissal; Environmental Education; Ethnography Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Community; Nonprofit-Organisation; Service-Learning; Urban area; Stadtregion; Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Führungsstil; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Lehrerbeurlaubung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Ethnografie |
Abstract | In 2010 I worked at Green Shoots, a nonprofit service-learning urban farming school started by John Browne. Despite an openly egalitarian community of practise ethic, Browne used his leadership to create a hierarchy at the school that eventually led to a walk-out by staff in which he responded by outright firing them. Using the theory of founder's syndrome, or the tendency of a founder to subvert the aims of their organization, I examine Browne's leadership and how his attitude destroyed the community of practise at Green Shoots. Findings reveal a character profile of Browne as a charming and inspirational teacher who engaged in a dominating leadership that contradicted the community of practise's ideals, creating further contradictions which resulted in disrespected students, disillusioned staff, and a founder unable to take responsibility for his leadership. Finally, I discuss the importance of addressing the power of founders so that founder's syndrome does not impede the important work of educational nonprofits. (As Provided). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2020/1/01 |