Global leadership: competitiveness, tolerance and creativity—a Canadian provincial example

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Acknowledgments

I appreciate the participation of the Canadian faculty in my Fulbright project as well as the reviewers’ helpful comments on the original manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. In the capacity of a Fulbright Scholarship, this work was funded by the World Learning: Global Development & Exchange: A Program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The site visit in Toronto, Canada was completed in 2017 (Grant number FSP-P000185).

2. The Canadian faculty members whose personal communications are quoted in a few places are not identified by name on condition of anonymity. This understanding extended to the facility itself (i.e. Toronto’s faculty of education).

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Funding

In the capacity of a Fulbright Scholarship, this work was funded by the World Learning: Global Development & Exchange: A Program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The site visit in Canada was completed in 2017 [Grant number FSP-P000185].

Notes on contributors

Carol A. Mullen

Carol A. Mullen, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061. Email: [email protected]. She is a twice-awarded U.S. Fulbright Scholar in China (2015) and Canada (2017). Recent books of hers are Creativity and education in China: Paradox and possibilities for an era of accountability (Routledge, 2017) and Education policy perils: Tackling the tough issues (Routledge, 2016, edited with Christopher Tienken). Her new edited book is Creativity under duress in education? Resistive theories, practices, and actions (Springer, Switzerland, 2019). She is recipient of the University Council for Educational Administration’s 2016 Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award.