Leadership sacralization in Elite Traditional International Baccalaureate schools: a Jungian lens review and analysis

Abstract

This review and ontological analysis will explore how the concept of leadership could be sacralized in Elite Traditional International Baccalaureate schools. I aim to challenge education researchers and leaders to recognize the significance of this under researched area of study. I will expand on research that employed institutional theory to explore how schools legitimize their claim to be international. My hypothesis is that these schools could strengthen institutional legitimacy by adopting a Jungian archetypal approach to international mindedness education that could sacralize leadership space. Much of the small body of literature related to leadership sacralization focused on a corporate rather than the educational context, and there are no known studies that directly addressed my hypothesis. My research aims include a contribution to theory development in this area as well as recommendations for future evaluation and expansion of the understandings gained in this paper.