A Theoretical Synthesis of Knowledge Sharing and Educational Leadership for Sustaining Learning Communities
A Theoretical Synthesis of Knowledge Sharing and Educational Leadership for Sustaining Learning Communities
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2013
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US-China Education Review A 3,12 (February 2013):133-139
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Knowledge is one of the crucial and dominant economic resources in order to obtain sustainable advantages in any
community. The world is now shifting faster thanks to the advanced development of digital connectivity and
increasing access to knowledge. Leaders of a community, society, or country must contemplate what factors
concerned in the emergent era of valuable network that fosters learning communities. To some extent, learning
communities benefit each individual member and the community as a whole as they generate economic prosperity
as well as improve students’ academic and social achievement. They even enhance interdisciplinary studies in
higher education levels. Hence, it is of essence to have a strong learning community which requires all stakeholders
to actively participate in sharing common values, beliefs, and knowledge in order to pass on their wisdom from
generation to generation and embracing a strong sense of loyalty and belonging among themselves, so as to achieve
together both individual needs and shared missions of the community. With the aim of sustaining a learning
community, it necessitates synthesizing the creative mechanism of knowledge sharing with the application of
authentic educational leadership that encompasses a process of influencing, sharing knowledge of new concepts,
practices, ideas, insights, abilities, and values for personal development and of facilitating ongoing learning,
communicating certain values and useful information for people’s well-being in a community, enhancing academic
progress, and inculcating sound awareness of continuous lifelong education. The purposes of this study through
content analysis are to raise the awareness of the eminent power of sharing knowledge that requires a strong sense
of educational leadership and to emphasize the significance of sustaining learning communities for the academic
achievement of learners in particular and for the intellectual well-being of people in a community in general.