The Purpose of Education in a Youth’s Life Education has a twofold implication in a young person’s life. It must cultivate two ongoing actions—it must enable one to simultaneously reflect and predict/envision oneself amidst a changing world full of diverse ideologies and worldviews during the process of lifelong learning. This belief is rooted in the concepts of reflective learning and visioning in education. One must be able to look back in order to look forward, and vice-versa, in order to fully realize one’s purpose and goal, role and function in the society and in life. Reflective learning and thinking refers to the processes of analyzing and making judgments about what has happened (Halpern, 1996). John Dewey also stated that it is an active, persistent, and careful consideration of a supposed form of knowledge. Education must cause the youth ...
Instructional leadership, as Debevoise (1984) defined, encompasses those actions that a principal takes, or delegates to others, to promote growth in student learning. This has been a dynamic and ever-developing area in the field of education, with many trends and issues emerging through time. In this review, the researcher chose the following three journal articles on Instructional Leadership dealing with three different aspects in the academe, namely: Teachers’ Organizational Commitment, Management of the Instructional Program, as well as Coaching Protocols for Instructional Leadership. The first article, entitled “Relationship between the Instructional Leadership Behaviors of High School Principals and Teachers’ Organizational Commitment” by Erdogan and Sarikaya (2016) explores the relationship between the instructional leadership behaviors of high school principals and teachers’ perceptions of organizational commitment and identifies the extent to which instructional leadership b...