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Examining Authentic Leadership and Popular Education
Type of Presentation
Concurrent Session (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Through a workshop at the Highlander Center, we defined leadership collectively using shared experiences from 12 participants. Let’s share the creative vision of leadership through popular education and action research.
Target Audience
This session is focused on ways to explore and construct action plans from experience and research through a popular education lens. We invite managers, trainers, educators, leaders, and learners interested in the following topics: Leadership for social justice; roles of women in leadership; popular education in adult and community education; inclusive, cooperative and collaborative leadership; consensus decision making; developing your own critical awareness about how to be an authentic educator and leader; the history of Highlander and its work.
Learning Outcomes
We will share and apply the model used from the Highlander workshop regarding structured reflection and authentic leadership. In the session, we will practice constructing definitions and strategies to raise critical consciousness about leadership. We will discuss how leadership styles are shaped by diversity, maturity levels, and institutional, organizational, and personal contexts. Then we will examine how the process of leadership fits into our larger society and collective context. We will share artifacts developed at the workshop through storytelling that represent collective themes through artistic media, as well as strategies to apply authentic leadership in participants’ own communities of practice.
Session Description
Traditional, hierarchical models of leadership that have dominated our economic, political, and social lives are failing: it is time to create our own definitions of leadership and how we live those. Just as effective teaching requires authenticity, we must understand our own issues, assumptions, biases, and critical awareness before we can lead and develop leaders. We believe it is time to try a model of leadership that shares the tasks of leadership more evenly. Such a model sees leadership as a set of behaviors that need to be done to organize work, to train new leaders, and move people and organizations forward. In this session, we will look through a popular education and action lens at women in leadership, how to share stories about women in leadership so others have models and examples to follow, and then to be able to share what we constructed together through creative arts.
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Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Dr. Stephen Earnest, Indiana University Purdue University
Work Title
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Dr. Marjorie E Treff, Ed.D., Indiana University
Work Title
Lecturer, MS in Adult Education, School of Education
Dr. Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Ball State University
Work Title
Associate Professor of Adult, Higher, and Community Education