Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice Hardcover - 2008
by Stephen Preskill; Stephen D. Brookfield
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Learning As a Way of Leading
Learning As a Way of Leading explores a little-researched form of leadership study--social activism. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Preskill and Stephen D. Brookfield take an in-depth look at how social justice leaders learn, how they support other people's learning, and how this deepens their social impact.
As the authors explain, the best leaders enjoy a capacity to be taught, to work collaboratively with followers, to listen and learn from people around them, and, in many cases, to lead by being led. Such leaders are developmental leaders, chiefly interested in drawing out the abilities and capacities of their followers. They do this by remaining open to what those followers can impart to them as much as by guiding them to new possibilities.
Learning As a Way of Leading focuses on a number of important leadership tasks such as publicly modeling engagement in learning, viewing learning as a daily professional imperative, and communicating to colleagues the lessons learned. To demonstrate each of these activities, the book includes portraits of nine twentieth-century leaders--Jane Addams, Nelson Mandela, Septima Clark, Ella Baker, Myles Horton, Aldo Leopold, Mary Parker Follett, Paul Robeson, and Cesar Chavez--who exemplify the learning tasks identified in this pioneering resource. Each of the noteworthy leaders supported their co-workers in challenging the status quo, in expanding the boundaries of what can be accomplished together, and in raising standards of what we expect from each other, both intellectually and morally.
Learning As a Way of Leading is an essential resource written for anyone who wants to make a difference for the public good by joining with others to bring about positive change.
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- Title Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice
- Author Stephen Preskill; Stephen D. Brookfield
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: New ]
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass
- Date 2008-11
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780787978075 / 0787978078
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Political activists, Social justice
- Dewey Decimal Code 371
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