Reflections of Green Transformational Leadership in Educational Organizations in the Context of Environmental Sustainability

Year 2023, Volume: 11 Issue: 2 - AJELI - YIL 2023, SAYI 2, 446 - 462, 31.12.2023

Ejder Güven

Abstract

The most important problem that humanity must address and solve is environmentally based. Global warming, climate changes, resource depletion and similar disasters shorten the life of our planet. With the destruction of the environment, our world is moving towards a great extinction. The biggest share in this disaster belongs to economic interest groups. The desire for a more comfortable life, which lies behind more production, rapidly consumes natural resources and poisons the environment. Although this process, called economic sustainability, seems to be for the benefit of humanity, it is diametrically opposed to environmental sustainability. Therefore, it is very difficult to combine both sustainability concepts under the same roof. As economic sustainability increases, the chance of environmental sustainability decreases further. The world economy, which grows and develops by consuming natural resources, has always ignored environmental destruction until today. However, what is happening in our current period once again reveals to us the fact that the environment we inherited is being destroyed. If the process continues like this, we may not be able to entrust this livable environment that we inherited to future generations as it was inherited. At this point, considerable organizations and institutions around the world focus on environmental sustainability for drawing attention to how important the issue is and how urgent the solution is. So much so that ensuring environmental sustainability and creating individual and social awareness regarding environmental sustainability can only be achieved through education. Therefore, the basis of ensuring environmental sustainability lies in educating and raising the awareness of the society. In this context, educational organizations have a great duty and responsibility. Educational organizations benefit from written, visual and other educational resources in the process of raising awareness about environmental sustainability. The process is managed by teachers within the educational organizations. On the other hand, convincing the society to change by managing the process and creating desired behaviors in the society through education requires a certain leadership style. Since the issue is to ensure the continuity of natural resources by protecting the environment and especially the green, the necessity of a transformation and change is inevitable. In other words, teachers are expected to act as green transformational leaders for a sustainable environment. Teachers in educational organizations not only raise public awareness by displaying green transformative leadership behaviors; they initiate the process of creating these leaders.

Keywords

Sustainability, Enviromental Sustainability, Educational Organizations, Green Transaformational Leadership

Çevresel Sürdürülebilirlik Bağlamında Yeşil Dönüştürücü Liderliğin Eğitim Örgütlerinde Yansımaları: Literatür Taraması

Abstract

İnsanlığın üzerinde durarak çözmesi gereken en önemli sorun çevre temellidir. Küresel ısınma, iklim değişiklikleri, kaynakların azalması ve bu gibi felaketler gezegenimizin ömrünü kısaltmaktadır. Çevrenin tahrip olmasıyla birlikte dünyamız büyük bir yok oluşa doğru ilerlemektedir. Bu felakette en büyük pay ekonomik çıkar gruplarına aittir. Daha çok üretimin ardında yatan daha konforlu bir yaşam isteği doğal kaynakları hızla tüketerek çevreyi zehirlemektedir. Adına ekonomik sürdürülebilirlik denen bu süreç her ne kadar insanlığın yararına gibi görünse de çevresel sürdürülebilirlikle taban tabana zıttır. Dolayısıyla her iki sürdürülebilirlik kavramını aynı çatı altında birleştirmek oldukça güçtür. Ekonomik sürdürülebilirlik arttıkça çevresel sürdürülebilirlik şansı daha da azalmaktadır. Doğal kaynakları tüketerek büyüyen ve gelişen dünya ekonomisi günümüze kadar çevresel yok oluşu hep kulak ardı etmiştir. Ancak bulunduğumuz süreçte yaşananlar bize miras kalan çevrenin yok olduğu gerçekliğini bir kez daha yüzümüze vurmaktadır. Süreç bu şekilde devam ederse bize miras kalan bu yaşanır çevreyi, miras kaldığı şekliyle gelecek nesillere emanet edemeyebiliriz. Bu noktada dünya üzerinde hatırı sayılır örgüt ve kuruluşlar çevresel sürdürülebilirliğe odaklanarak konunun ne kadar önemli ve çözümün acil olduğuna dikkat çekmektedir. Öyle ki çevresel sürdürülebilirliğin sağlanarak çevresel sürdürülebilirliğe ilişkin bireysel ve toplumsal farkındalığın yaratılması ve devam ettirilmesi sadece eğitim yoluyla gerçekleştirilebilir. Dolayısıyla çevresel sürdürülebilirliğin sağlanmasının temelinde toplumun eğitilerek bilinçlendirilmesi yatmaktadır. Bu bağlamda eğitim örgütlerine büyük görev ve sorumluluk düşmektedir. Eğitim örgütleri çevresel sürdürülebilirliğe ilişkin bilinçlendirme ve farkındalık yaratma sürecinde yazılı, görsel ve diğer eğitim kaynaklarından faydalanmaktadır. Süreç ise eğitim örgütlerinin bünyesinde yer alan öğretmenler tarafından yönetilmektedir. Diğer yandan süreci yöneterek toplumu değişeme ikna etmek ve eğitim aracılığı ile toplum üzerinde istendik davranışlar oluşturmak belli bir liderlik stili gerektirir. Söz konusu çevre ve özellikle yeşilin korunarak doğal kaynakların devamlılığının sağlanması olduğundan bir dönüşüm ve bir değişimin gerekliliği de kaçınılmazdır. Diğer bir deyişle öğretmenlerin sürdürülebilir bir çevre için yeşil dönüştürücü liderler olarak davranmaları beklenir. Eğitim örgütlerinde yer alan öğretmenler yeşil dönüştürücü liderlik davranışları sergileyerek toplumu bilinçlendirmekle kalmayıp; bu liderlerin yaratılması sürecine ön ayak olmaktadırlar.

Keywords

Sürüdürülebilirlik, Çevresel Sürdürülebilirlik, Eğitim Örgütleri, Yeşil Dönüştürücü Liderlik

Ethical Statement

DERLEME ÇALIŞMASIDIR.

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