Education in crisis? : task and development of educational leaders

Author of this paper attempts to show that crisis is often a result of ideologies promoting anti-social values and ways of functioning within social sphere. Together with difficult challenges of contemporary life it creates conditions of operation for societies and educational institutions. Vision of education and educational leaders need to be changed accordingly to diagnosed needs that shows necessity of dialogue, reflection and focus on learning. Author argues that time of the crises opens people for change and although it is difficult we need more cooperation and trust in order to successfully modify leadership and management mechanism and processes. It is proposed to concentrate in the development of leaders on five areas of leader-ship development and also to start common discussion on aims of education and educational leadership.