Serving the Once and Future King: Using the TV Series Merlin to Teach Servant-Leadership and Leadership Ethics in Schools

1MA Organizational Leadership Graduate School of Professional Studies Gonzaga University Spokane, Washington
2Ph.D. Candidate, Leadership Studies School of Professional Studies Gonzaga University Spokane, Washington

Journal of Leadership Education

ISSN: 1552-9045

Article publication date: 15 June 2010

Issue publication date: 15 June 2010

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Abstract

The recent financial crisis has brought business ethics issues to the forefront. While most colleges have formal training in business ethics, a person’s ethical standards have often developed before college age. This application brief proposes using digital popular media to teach servant-leadership principles to public school adolescents. The purpose is to illustrate the advantage of using secular content from the television series Merlin (Wilkie, 2008) to demonstrate an ethics-based leadership perspective through a medium that is accessible to the virtual/video generation.

Citation

Oliver, L.M. and Reynolds, K. (2010), "Serving the Once and Future King: Using the TV Series Merlin to Teach Servant-Leadership and Leadership Ethics in Schools", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 122-134. https://doi.org/10.12806/V9/I2/AB1

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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