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Understanding Wisdom As Experienced By Private University Leaders : A Qualitative Approach

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  • Raco, Jozef

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Challenges in education were very tough due to the constant changes in social, economic, politic, and culture. It brought about public greater demand for better education. The role of university leaders was getting more complex and difficult. Facing those challenges, a university leader should have wisdom. The purpose of this inquiry was to understand the meaning of wisdom as experienced by university leader. A qualitative approach was used to guide the inquiry. Interviews were conducted with ten university leaders of private universities in Jakarta. The participants were asked to reflect on their experience while acting as university leaders. Transcriptions of the interviews were utilized as text for analysis. Common themes were identified and constitutive pattern emerged from the linked-themes as a new understanding. A new understanding of the meaning of wisdom as university leaders derived. The emerging constitutive pattern identified as 'knowledge' came forward from data interpretation. 'Knowledge' as new meaning and understanding of wisdom was grasped from several themes derived from the text. The participant acknowledge that 'knowledge' was very important for wisdom. Wisdom was impossible to understand without 'knowlwdge'.

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  • Raco, Jozef, 2009. "Understanding Wisdom As Experienced By Private University Leaders : A Qualitative Approach," OSF Preprints 8fjnc, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:8fjnc
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/8fjnc
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