Bücher der Reihe Contemporary Perspectives on Leadership Learning

Reflection, the process of making meaning of experience, and leadership, a relational process for affecting change, are enhanced by one another. This book is a clarion call for educators and learners to make reflection a central priority.

Links issues of social justice, equity, and equality, to leadership knowledge, skills, and values, with the intent of offering theoretical, practical, and policy recommendations to improve the work of educators charged with preparing undergraduates for the complexities of leadership in all its forms.

Provides guidance for facilitating reflection in leadership learning and features over 50 activities from 52 reflective leadership educators. Guided by a framework for reflection in leadership learning, the book focuses on six methods for reflection: contemplative, creative, digital, discussion, narrative, and written.

Provides resources for leadership educators. The first section sets the stage for leadership education and the professional work of leadership educators. The second introduces a leadership learning framework, provides examples of strong leadership programs, and describes the transformative practice of leadership education. The third section offers specific instructional and assessment strategies.

Filled with 60 learning activities for diverse contributors, this book offers a hands-on resource for leadership educators to use when facilitating leadership learning opportunities. Each learning activity includes learning outcomes, activity instructions, facilitation notes, and additional resources.

Introduces readers to process-based understandings of leadership, providing language and tools for engaging in the leadership process for all involved. Based on their experiences as leadership educators, the authors offer grounding concepts of leadership and examples illustrating the complexity of culturally relevant leadership learning.

The authors envision this book as an essential element of the leadership learning toolkit of socially just leadership educators at all levels, between contexts, and across varying amounts of education, influence, and experience.

Offers a guide for those seeking to learn through critical perspectives, and seek more agile, responsive tools for navigating complexity, change, and disruption. The book frames leadership learning and development as a process of adaptive action in complex systems.

Offers a guide for those seeking to learn through critical perspectives, and seek more agile, responsive tools for navigating complexity, change, and disruption. The book frames leadership learning and development as a process of adaptive action in complex systems.