Habermas and Teacher Leadership through Reflection

This paper discusses how teachers should be encouraged to lead in educational change through reflection based on Habermas’s theory of communicative action and discourse ethics. Habermas’s theory has much potential to help teachers to be leaders by contributing to the success of educational change and reform projects through reflection. By identifying the nature, scope, object and tradition of reflection and reflective practice, this paper explains the conception of reflection for teachers. It argues that teachers can be leaders in educational change through teacher reflection which promotes democratic interactions and communications among stakeholders of education.

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