Leadership praxis in higher education is dialogic strategy, action, and balanced measurement that recognizes, embraces, and takes responsibility for the obligation of higher education to shape society and change the world.
- Rob Abel, A-HEC

(quotes taken from infed encyclopaedia http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-praxis.htm)

"Educators are involved with praxis: acts which shape and change the world"

"Praxis: informed, committed action"

"(Praxis) is not simply action based on reflection. It is action which embodies certain qualities. These include a commitment to human well being and the search for truth, and respect for others. It is the action of people who are free, who are able to act for themselves. Moreover, praxis is always risky. It requires that a person 'makes a wise and prudent practical judgement about how to act in this situation' (Carr and Kemmis 1986: 190).

As Paul Taylor (1993) has written, we can say that word and action, action and reflection, theory and practice are all facets of the same idea. This action is not merely the doing of something, what Freire describes as activism and Aristotle as poiesis. Poiesis is about acting upon, doing to: it is about working with objects. Praxis, however, is creative: it is other-seeking and dialogic."

(quotes taken from infed encyclopaedia http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-praxis.htm)