Guideline Learning Community proposal final.docDraft of Guiding Questions
Directions to the Reader:
The third section of the ILA guidelines for Leadership Education seeks to provide academic leadership program developers with a set of topical areas and respective questions to use as they begin to conceptualize the content of their own specific programs. These topical areas are meant as potential foundational curricula to include when developing a comprehensive program. While the diversity of academic programs cannot easily lend itself to an exhaustive set of topical areas, the ones listed below are meant to help educators create the foundations of their programs. The bulleted questions included in each area represent broad points for consideration within each topic.
Foundations of Leadership
- What are the theories and definitions of leadership that frame the study of leadership?
- What are the philosophical underpinnings that guide the study of leadership? What are the historical perspectives that inform your leadership focus?
- What are the disciplines that inform the study of leadership in your program?
- Are the theories recognized in research literature?
- What are the key empirical studies that inform your course content?
Strategic Leadership
The following are content areas that each program should include as modules in its teaching. The content areas ensure that students understand the way leadership works. Key terms we use in understanding leadership- leadership programs should help their students understand their key content areas.
- Does the program help students understand these concepts and how they play a role in leadership?
- Does the program help students master key concepts in strategic leadership such as (vision, purpose/mission, needs assessment, planning, change, problem-solving, conflict, decision-making, motivation, building a culture; cultural analysis.)?
Personal Development
- Does the program promote personal development in way that leads to increased capacities for individual and collective leadership?
- Does the program help students explore the following areas of individual and collective leadership (i.e. self-awareness (inside-out), personal growth/change, renewal, spirituality, self in relation to others)
Organizational Leadership
- Does the program advance a student’s understanding of organizational context and structures of leadership?
- Does the program include aspects of interpersonal skill development necessary in a leadership context?
- Does the program help students comprehend the following organizational context and structure for action and results (organizational design and structure, interpersonal skills, communication, resource allocation and management, technology, group dynamics, and law and policy?
Ethical Leadership
- Does the program uphold the knowledge, skill and disposition to provide moral leadership?
- Does the program support ethical leadership in the following ways; systemic moral analysis, values, virtues, justice, and duty?
Pluralistic Leadership – Western view- leave out for the time being to see what feedback we receive from others.
Leadership Experiences- This section should be included in the pedagogy section.
Other content issues to consider-
- What level of development are the students in your program? (freshman, graduate students)
- What values orientation (industrial and post industrial) paradigms of leadership guide your course content?
- What will the students learn as a result of the course content?
- How do you integrate the foundations/introductory course content in relation to the other academic courses?
- What are your general criteria for the selection of textbooks/reading packets for your course?
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