An ethnographic case study of transformative learning in leadership development
| dc.contributor | Townsend, Christine | |
| dc.creator | Powell, Linda Chastain | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-15T00:15:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-16T02:19:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-07T19:56:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-01-15T00:15:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-01-16T02:19:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-07T19:56:51Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2007-08 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-06-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This qualitative study investigated how transformative learning and membership in a community of practice influenced leadership development. It sought a phenomenological understanding of how participants made meaning of their experiences in a collegiate leadership development organization. Data were collected utilizing in-depth interviews and field observations during a prolonged period of engagement in the setting. An inductive approach was taken in data analysis using a constant comparative method in development of coding categories of recurring concepts and identification of themes. A creative synthesis of the findings is told through a richly descriptive metaphoric narrative tale of novice freshmen following a transformative spiral path to become master senior-class leaders and is graphically displayed in a leadership development model. A crystallization concept of triangulating the data and the creative analytic practice criteria of substantive contribution, aesthetic merit, reflexivity, impact, and expression of a reality framed the validity and authenticity of the study. Findings and conclusions from this ethnographic case study included the value of a holistic approach to transformative learning and leadership development; relationships founded in an ethic of caring are instrumental in fostering transformative learning and leadership development; individual meaning of leadership is constructed through participation in relational and cultural contexts; cultural values shape leadership developmental objectives and outcomes; and location ?on the edge? is a very powerful teaching place and learning site for leadership development. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1886 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | leadership development | |
| dc.subject | transformative learning | |
| dc.title | An ethnographic case study of transformative learning in leadership development | |
| dc.type | Book | |
| dc.type | Thesis |