Lecture 3 Authority and its challenges

Lecture 3 Authority and its challenges

This lecture continues on ideal leadership and moves on to the leadership connection to societal change. The lecture focuses on some key writers from the past. The lecture points out the connections of leadership thinking between the private and public sectors.

Before the lecture either print or save on your computer the related power point slides.

Assignment before the lecture: None.

Open or save the PowerPoint slides related to this lecture EDLS210_S2_L3.pdf​

Listen to the lecture, and afterwards do the assignment given below.


Assignment after the lecture:

    1. Reflective report. Write your learning experiences into your personal reflective report. The reflective report for session 2 will be submitted after lecture 4.

Supplementary material:

Below is a list of additional supplementary material to be used for individual development. The material can also be used in the final assignment of this course.

    1. For more information about Plato, see e.g. the Philosophy Pages: Plato http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/plat.htm
    2. For more information about Thomas Aquinas, see e.g. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/
    3. For more information about Machiavelli see e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince The whole book “The Prince” can be read at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232
    4. For more information about Adam Smith, see e.g. The Internet Encylclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/smith/
    5. For more information about Sigmund Freud, see e.g. http://psychology.about.com/od/sigmundfreud/p/sigmund_freud.htm
    6. For more information about Thomas Hobbles see e.g. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes/
    7. For more information about John Locke, see e.g. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
    8. For more information about David Hume see e.g. http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hume.htm
    9. For more information about John Dewey, see e.g. the John Dewey Society http://doe.concordia.ca/jds/
    10. For more information about Marx & Engels see e.g. Marx & Engels Internet archive http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/index.htm
    11. For more information about W. E. B. DuBois, see e.g. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/172481/W-E-B-Du-Bois