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The Way Forward: Educational Leadership and Strategic Capital By The Way Forward: Educational Leadership and Strategic Capital by K. Page Boyer A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education (Educational Leadership) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn 2016 Doctoral Committee: Professor Bonnie M. Beyer, Chair LEO Lecturer II John Burl Artis Professor M. Robert Fraser Copyright 2016 by K. Page Boyer All Rights Reserved i Dedication To my family “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” ~ Nicolaus Copernicus ii Acknowledgements I would like to thank Dr. Bonnie M. Beyer, Chair of my dissertation committee, for her probity and guidance concerning theories of school administration and leadership, organizational theory and development, educational law, legal and regulatory issues in educational administration, and curriculum deliberation and development. Thank you to Dr. John Burl Artis for his deep knowledge, political sentience, and keen sense of humor concerning all facets of educational leadership. Thank you to Dr. M. Robert Fraser for his rigorous theoretical challenges and intellectual acuity concerning the history of Christianity and Christian Thought and how both pertain to teaching and learning in America’s colleges and universities today. I am indebted to Baker Library at Dartmouth College, Regenstein Library at The University of Chicago, the Widener and Houghton Libraries at Harvard University, and the Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan for their stewardship of inestimably valuable resources. Finally, I want to thank my family for their enduring faith, hope, and love, united with a formidable sense of humor, passion, optimism, and a prodigious ability to dream. To my mother and father, Penelope J. Boyer and Duane O. Boyer—O Captain! My Captain!—thank you for teaching me that anything that I can imagine is possible, modeling this truth with your own lives and allowing me to stand upon your shoulders to bring my dream to fruition. Children do learn what they live. To my wife, Kathleen P. Boyer, thank you for your deep and abiding love and support. Strambata, indeed. To my sister, Shereen D. Boyer, dreams do come true. P.O.Y.S. To my nieces, Sophia C. Boyer and Olivia G. Boyer, always keep learning and dare to dream! “The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.” ~Walt Whitman, The Untold Want iii Table of Contents Dedication ........................................................................................................................................ i Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................... ii List of Appendices ......................................................................................................................... vi Abstract ............................................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1: Introduction ....................................................................................................................2 Statement of the Problem ...........................................................................................................6 Purpose of the Study ..................................................................................................................8 Research Question .....................................................................................................................9 Directional Hypothesis.............................................................................................................10 Delimitations ............................................................................................................................11 Chapter 2: Literature Review and Theoretical Framework ...........................................................12 Curriculum 1638-1950: Religion via Social Stratum ..............................................................12 Schools: “Great Equalizer” or Social Stratum Archetype?......................................................30 Capital ......................................................................................................................................38 Neo-Capital ..............................................................................................................................45 Human Capital ...................................................................................................................46 Social Capital .....................................................................................................................47 Cultural Capital ..................................................................................................................49 Social Network Theory ............................................................................................................57 Educational Leadership ............................................................................................................62 Evolution of Social Justice through a Curricular Lens ............................................................74 Chaos Theory .....................................................................................................................78 iv Systems Thinking...............................................................................................................80 Multicultural and Multilingual Landscape.........................................................................82 Accelerating Technology ...................................................................................................83 Groups Competing for Control of the 21st Century American Curriculum .............................85 Scholar Academic ..............................................................................................................88 Learner Centered ................................................................................................................92 Social Efficiency ................................................................................................................97 Social Reconstructionist...................................................................................................103 Chapter 3: Methodology ..............................................................................................................113 Historiography .......................................................................................................................115 Ethnographic Content Analysis .............................................................................................116 Grounded Theory ...................................................................................................................117 Chapter 4: Results and Data Analysis ..........................................................................................121 Harvard: 1950-Present ...........................................................................................................127 James Bryant Conant (1933-1953) ..................................................................................133 Nathan Marsh Pusey (1953-1971) ...................................................................................143 Derek Bok (1971-1991) ...................................................................................................158 Neil L. Rudenstine (1991-2001) ......................................................................................164 Lawrence H. Summers (2001-2006) ................................................................................169 Drew Gilpin Faust (2007-Present) ...................................................................................177 Dartmouth: 1950-Present .......................................................................................................188 John Sloan Dickey (1945-1970) ......................................................................................196 John George Kemeny (1970-1981) ..................................................................................199 v David Thomas McLaughlin (1981-1987) ........................................................................202 James Oliver Freedman (1987-1998)...............................................................................206 James Edward Wright (1998-2009) .................................................................................209 Jim Yong Kim (2009-2012) .............................................................................................213 Philip J. Hanlon (2013-Present) .......................................................................................217 University of Chicago: 1950-Present .....................................................................................221 Robert Maynard Hutchins (1929-1951) ...........................................................................227 Lawrence A. Kimpton (1951-1960) .................................................................................243 George W. Beadle (1961-1968) .......................................................................................248 Edward H. Levi (1968-1975) ...........................................................................................252 John T. Wilson (1975-1978) ............................................................................................261
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