title: Honoring silence and valuing community: living leadership in 21st century teaching-learning.
abstract: Leadership is a very personal concept. The methods implemented by leaders often reflect philosophical beliefs and theoretical underpinnings. This column, while recognizing that leadership styles are indeed personal, proffers living leadership in nursing education through two key leadership attitudes. These attitudes are honoring silence and valuing community. Honoring silence is discussed as recognizing the multiple dimensions of silence, and valuing community is presented in light of the humanbecoming community models change concepts: moving-initiating, anchoring-shifting, and pondering-shaping.
authors.affiliation: Professor of Nursing, Briar Cliff University.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Backer Condon
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hegge
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning; D013663:Teaching
keywords: Parse; community; leadership; nursing education; silence