Journal of Leadership Education: Volume 7 Issue 3 , Open Access

The Renaissance Art Academies: Implications for Leadership Education Practices and Research

Taking the perspective that leadership education is similar to art education created a bridge connecting the leadership education literature with the large and rich body of…

When Student Leaders Don’t

The Use of Portfolios in Leadership Education

This paper discusses the benefits of using student portfolios in undergraduate leadership education at Saint Michael’s College. There appears to be a natural link between the use…

Empowering Community Members for Civic Leadership: The Institute for Community Leadership

Leaders emerge from some very unlikely situations. They come in all ages, sizes, shapes, and from both genders. In this paper we discuss the relationship between the theoretic and…

Using a Case Study to Develop the Transformational Teaching Theory

Leadership educators teach Transformational Leadership Theory in their classrooms, but could transformational theory be used as a pedagogical model to deepen students’…

Reconceptualizing Academic Advising Using The Full Range Leadership Model

Developmental and prescriptive advising styles have been the focus of the academic advising literature for the past 35 years. Academic advising scholars have called for a new…

Leadership in Intergenerational Practice: In Search of the Elusive “P” Factor — Passion

Intergenerational programs and practices refer to a wide range of initiatives which aim to bring people of different generations together to interact, educate, support, and…

Making a Difference: Two Case Studies Describing the Impact of a Capstone Leadership Education Experience provided through a National Youth Leadership Training Program

Many youth leadership organizations exist today and provide a variety of leadership experiences. One such organization provides a week long leadership experience to high school…

College Student Leaders: Meet the Alpha Female

With the emergence of a new generation of strong and empowered female student leaders on college campuses, a special type of female leader, the Alpha Female, has developed. This…

Effective Leadership Development for Undergraduates: How Important is Active Participation in Collegiate Organizations?

Leaders are needed in all areas of life. A question arises, “Where do leaders come from and how do they develop the skills necessary to be effective?” Colleges and universities…

Predicting the Individual Values of the Social Change Model of Leadership Development: The Role of College Students’ Leadership and Involvement Experiences

This study explored the extent to which co-curricular involvement, holding formal leadership roles, and participating in leadership programs contributed to female and male college…

Evaluating a College Leadership Course: What do Students Learn in a Leadership Course with a Service-Learning Component and How Deeply do They Learn It?

The purpose of this study was to evaluate final projects in a freshman leadership course (combining grounding in leadership theories with a service-learning component) to…

Casting the Net of Critical Thinking: A Look into the Collegiate Leadership Classroom

As the leadership classroom is becoming more diverse in the student demographic make-up it is important to establish what the impacts of those differences are on learning…

Experiential Workshop with Educational Leadership Doctoral Students: Managing Affective Reactions To Organizational Change

Managing change processes, resistance to change, and organizational members’ emotional reactions to change are crucial skills for future educational leaders to learn. Our case…

Studying Leadership within Successful Rural Communities in a Southeastern State: A Qualitative Analysis

Many rural communities are experiencing a diversity of issues, but what part does leadership play in these communities? This qualitative study describes the environment within two…

Influences of Youth Leadership within a Community-Based Context

This research project evaluated outcomes for a leadership development program utilizing adult volunteers who worked with youth to incorporate experiential learning and civic…

Kouzes and Posner's Transformational Leadership Model in Practice: The Case of Jordanian Schools

The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which Kouzes and Posner’s Transformational Leadership Model is being practiced by school principals as perceived by their…