چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper describes how administrator preparation programs can help future education leaders to
value, understand, and use the democratic strategy of deliberative dialogue and action. The purpose of
the strategy is to engage in a new way with teachers, parents, and other stakeholders about problems in
their local public schools. Follow-up reective writings of graduate students who participated in simulated
democratic, deliberative dialogues with non-educators predicted immediate and long-term benets in
implementing dialogue events. In addition, their reections on the simulations revealed challenges likely
to confront many educational administration students if they are to shift their perspectives on leadership
and jointly participate in dening and acting upon local education problems with parents and other
non-educators. Genuine, public interactions that lead to productive action toward school improvement
may require administrators to relinquish traditional ways of partnering with their publics.