Lecture 1 (historical perspective I) is about moral purpose of leadership. From the ancient years works and ideas of selected thinkers and writers are discussed (Plato, Sun Tzu, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Abu Yusuf).

Before any lecture either print or save to your computer the assigned PowerPoint presentation.

Assignment before the lecture: None.

Open or save the PowerPoint slides related to this lecture EDLS210_S2_L1.pdf​

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

Write your learning experiences into your personal Reflective report

Especially write reflections to the approaches of leadership in the ancient years – any good ideas from the past?

Assignment after the lecture: None.

Supplementary material: On the following is a list of supplementary material to be used in individual development and to be used in the final assignments of this course and in other courses on this MEd program. Below is a list of sites for some selected supplementary material:

For more information about Aristotle, see the pages from The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/aristotl.htm

or The Internet Library of Philosophy:
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm

For more information about SunZu, you can read The Art of War at a private site:
http://bibli.ca/users/sunzu

For more information about Machiavelli see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince

The whole book “The Prince” can be read at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1232

Read more about comparative study of early islamic scholarly thoughts and their reception by western economists
http://islamic-world.net/economics/al_kharaj.htm