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Martin, Georgianna L.; Williams, Brittany M.; Green, Bernard; Smith, Matthew J. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2019
This chapter discusses trends in activism among students and educators and the leadership concepts inherent in working for social change.
Descriptors: Activism, Social Action, Social Change, Student Leadership
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Broadhurst, Christopher J. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2019
This chapter explores how two student activists used their roles as student body presidents to lead their campuses to protest the Kent State Shootings in 1970. The administrative responses and their strategies for working with activists are also explored.
Descriptors: Social Change, Student Government, Activism, Student Role
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Bishundat, Devita; Phillip, Daviree Velázquez; Gore, Willie – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2018
Adopting critical approaches draws into question how we see the world and renders visible social stratification and inequity. Coming to understand these realities can contribute to pessimism, disillusionment, or retreat from engaging in the work of leadership for social change. This chapter offers tools to aid educators with purposefully…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Leadership Training, Psychological Patterns, Social Change
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Kezar, Adrianna; Acuña Avilez, Arely; Drivalas, Yianna; Wheaton, Marissiko M. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2017
This chapter highlights nontraditional forms of leadership development in student organizations. Using the social change model for leadership as a framework, the authors discuss the ways in which collectivist and activist approaches can result in similar skills obtained through traditional forms of leadership development.
Descriptors: Social Change, Leadership Training, Capacity Building, Student Leadership
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Watt, Sherry K. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2016
Theoretical frameworks, specific skills for leaders, and guidance to effectively work with others across difference as well as practice freedom to facilitate are explored in this chapter.
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Job Skills, Transformational Leadership, Freedom
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Ginwright, Shawn A. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2015
This chapter describes how present conditions in Black communities have fostered the development of new modes of youth leadership that focus on hope, love, and joy, and are ultimately restorative and redemptive.
Descriptors: African Americans, Youth Leaders, Social Change
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Wagner, Wendy; Mathison, Patricia – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2015
This chapter explores the use of powerful pedagogies such as service-learning, cultural immersion, and community-based research to enhance leadership development. Four key principles are presented that describe how leadership educators can facilitate community-based learning in a way that creates an optimal learning environment for students, while…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Change, Service Learning, Cultural Awareness
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Govan, Rashida H.; Fernandez, Jesica Siham; Lewis, Deana G.; Kirshner, Ben – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2015
This chapter details the ways youth community organizing strategies can inform leadership educators' approaches to engaging marginalized youth in leadership development for social change.
Descriptors: Youth Leaders, Youth Programs, Leadership Training, Community Action
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Dugan, John P.; Turman, Natasha T.; Torrez, Mark A. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2015
This chapter addresses the overemphasis on individual-leader development in leadership education, offering insights and pragmatic approaches for advancing collective leadership focused on social and political change.
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Social Justice, Social Change
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