Leadership refers to the action of having the power to command and control a group of people or an organization. Similarly, leadership refers to the state or position of power that someone holds over others. In society, different types of leaders exist in different contexts that exist. Leaders can be categorized as being naturally born or even situationally developed. This paper will analyze and critique on two leadership journal articles furthermore the paper will focus on an individual analysis of the two articles before concluding on a comparison and contrast of the analyzed articles.
Leah Tomkins on the 26 of November 2020 published a research article that focused on discussing care leadership and slavery .the article is titled, caring leadership as Nietzschean slave morality. In the article, Leah argues that there exists a link between care leadership and the slavery effects it brings toward a leader (Tomkins, 2020). Tomkins defines care as a sequence of activities that includes everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our world so that we may live in it as well as possible'. In her explanation, Leah first bases her arguments within a domestic setting. In this context, care refers to as the degree of attentiveness and concern in concrete relationships and attachments, where one person has the resources to attend to another person’s needs.
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The parents in a social setting, are central in caring for their offspring; thus, to their offspring, the parents become the caring leaders, as the children look up to them for leadership and guidance. Furthermore, in the context of an organizational setting, caring leaders are looked upon to provide the right leadership in directing other employees and organizational functions(Tomkins, 2020). Due to the established need to care, Leah emphasizes that care leadership forces a need to shelve self needs in favour of other peoples want and desires. In doing so, care leadership becomes a form of slavery as it holds a person to tend to the other needs and neglect to fulfil personal desires.
Trevor Male and Ioanna Palaiologou on the 19 of December published an article on sage journals that discussed the effects that early childhood education in England had on impacting the frames of leadership. The article was titled Leadership in early childhood education: The case for pedagogical praxis .within the article Trevor and Ioanna argue that there exists a connection between individual early childhood education and the effects that such education has in shaping future leaders. The two-point out that there lacks any law that governs the education of children under the age of five years in England.
Due to the lack of a policy, people have seized the opportunity to establish early childhood and care institutions that are more focused on producing profits from their investments. Furthermore, many of the teachers employed to teach young children in these institutions are underpaid and unqualified in handling the developing minds of young children (Palaiologou & Male, 2019). In the long run, such individual fails to realize the effects that poor teaching has on impacting children development and possible future leaders. In explanation Trevor and Ioanna state that, high-quality early childhood education has a positive outcome in developing competent and well virtue leaders this is because people base their day to day activities on the simple practices they learned while they were young.
The two articles both hold similar and contrasting views on the topic of leadership in the society (Palaiologou & Male, 2019). A contrasting factor held in the two articles is the contrasting power that situation hold in forming a leader. This is evident in the first article where care is the main factor that forms a specific type of leader while in the second article, early education is the main driving force that forms a leader. A similarity in the two articles is evident in the explanation of how a situational setting has on forming a leader as both the two articles are based on how the situation of fulfilling other people’s needs for care and education shape a leader.
References
Palaiologou, I., & Male, T. (2019). Leadership in early childhood education: The case for pedagogical praxis. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood , 20(1), 23–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949118819100
Tomkins, L. (2020). Caring leadership as Nietzschean slave morality. Leadership . https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715020974910
