Many Sunday schools in Korea are in both quantitatively and qualitatively crisis. There would be many reasons for the crisis but the biggest reason comes from the capability of teachers of Sunday school. Many churches failed to raise capability and le...
Many Sunday schools in Korea are in both quantitatively and qualitatively crisis. There would be many reasons for the crisis but the biggest reason comes from the capability of teachers of Sunday school. Many churches failed to raise capability and leadership of teachers though they spent a lot of budget and time. Therefore now education for teachers will have to be re-planned in the aspect of leadership training which can lead to guide and raise students well, which is different from previous education merely focused on knowledge exchange. From this treaty, I will find out principle of leadership development for Sunday school teacher base on R. K. Greenleaf`s servant leadership. Traditional leadership theories were developed under elements of leader`s characteristics, participation types and situation variables. Basic character of leaders from general theories of traditional leadership is regulating and ordering people from the top of pyramid structure. Greenleaf calls this concept of leadership as a `leader-first` thought. Regulating and controlling are leader`s roles from `leader-first` concept. However `servant leader` s the concept which was stated by R. K. Greenleaf considers himself as a servant. Servant leader has a mind of `servant - first` . Therefore servant leaders help and co-operate his followers to deal well with tasks. The core of servant leadership is setting a clear purpose, since worry from uncertainty of future can be overcome through the clear purpose. Therefore R. K. Greenleaf emphasizes to see a vision through purpose on rightful value. Also he says listen attentively to what people say is necessary to catch people` s request. It is because listening attentively makes leader to get an answer easily or to attain enlightenment. Finally servant leadership is a leadership theory that makes members to participate in their organization and share visions and wills of organization with other members. Also servant leadership prefers net-work type organization structure which can bear diverse customer`s request through decentralization policy. It is because these days situations that companies are experience and people`s requests are diverse with rapid social changes. For this, servant leadership authorize power and disperse order system. It is a different perspective from previous leadership. Also previous leader focus on increasing productivity through instigate to individual`s competence. Compare to it, servant leadership regards communication in the process of setting a purpose. As a result servant leadership focus on many people to participate voluntarily as much as possible through member`s participation and co - operation. Namely, it can be seen that servant leadership tries to achieve tasks through forming a relationship. It is needed to change structure of education base on the servant leadership. It is because that people who educated in warped structure of education tend to not listen to other people and insist their own assertions and do everything by their intention. To overcome this, direction and purpose of education have to be the education that serve students. Therefore if education until these days was a process that was designed for control and rule people, now it has to be change to the education that can raise people to serve other people. Traditional classes put teachers at the center. However, classes that are based on servant leadership put students to the center. Teachers stay in a position to serve students with supplying and guiding materials to students. Besides teachers become to acknowledge listening attentively to students is a way to understand students better and serve better. Methods to train teachers base on these contents is like this : First, there have to be a subject centered study. Second, it is necessary to use communal education curriculum. Third, it is necessary to have a model of training teachers to raise leadership which is different from existing model that was f