nurturing servant leaders in religious education - Scholarly ...

Data analysis
Data for this project was collected around the central research question: How does the
CES nurture servant leaders? Springing from this question are the following sub
questions categorised under the subheadings around which the questionnaire was
organised:
• Serving leadership: How is servant leadership understood in the lives of CES
institute directors and volunteer teachers?
• CES leadership: In what ways do the participants see the CES as an
organisation acting as a nurturing ground for improving their overall servant
leadership abilities?
• The true servant leader: How do the participants see the manifestation of
servant leadership qualities in the CES as relating to their overall life
experience?
• Cultural awareness: To what degree do the participants attribute their servant
leadership in the CES as having on their abilities to become servant leaders
within their context?
Categories of data analysis
The categories of data analysis used in this thesis are an extension of the central
garden theme introduced in Chapter I. I worked closely with my research supervisors
to create a list of possible garden elements might be factors in how nurturing takes
place in a garden. These elements shaped the thinking process of how relationships of
service might be seen in the light of conveyed participant experiences in a religious
organisation. See Figure 1.
To aid in coding, all answers were entered into a matrix-capable computer system to
aid in the ease of comparing answers. Clusters were formed around common
responses. Use of the computer system helped to visually display commonalities
between answers and to begin the coding section.
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