The Authentic Self in Educational Leadership By: John A. DuBois

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The Authentic Self in Educational
LeadershipBy John A. DuBois
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Introduction

• good education is always more process than
  product. Good education teaches students to
  become both producers of knowledge and discerning
  consumers of what other people claim to know
• Parker J. Palmer The Courage to Teach.
  (2007, p. 96)

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Research Questions

• What does it mean to be an authentic educational
  leader?
• authentic adult educator?
• authentic educational leader as teacher?
• authentic educational leader as principal,
  superintendent, as parent, as a member of the
  community, and as an educational expert?

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authentic adult educator?

• Life Stages of an Adult Learner
• inherent desire to experience real-life
  experiences

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authentic adult educator?

• Transformative Learning
• assumptions and past experiences are called
  into question

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authentic educational leader as teacher?

• Education
• education is the ability to teach and learn
  skills, knowledge, and develops character based
  on the systematic method of theoretical
  application taught by an accredited institution.

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authentic educational leader as teacher?

• Professional Education Programs
• lifelong learning including competence
  development builds on four elements learning,
  teaching, education, and development
• Kasworm Hemmingsen, 2007, p. 456

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authentic educational leader as teacher?

• Danish University of Education

Curriculum Modules Curriculum Modules
Module 1 Adult learning and adult psychology
Module 2 Learning in the workplace or organization
Module 3 Competency builders from a sociological and political perspective
Module 4 Comprehensive masters project chosen by student with interest in Adult Learning and Human Resource Development
(Kasworm Hemmingsen, 2007, p. 456) (Kasworm Hemmingsen, 2007, p. 456)
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authentic educational leader as teacher?

• Student Leadership Development Institute
• Rutgers University, 2001
• Leadership development is a fundamental
  responsibility of colleges and universities and
  learning opportunities must be created to allow
  students to apply and practice their knowledge
  and to experience the consequences of their
  actions.
• Connaughton, Lawrence, Ruben, 2003, p. 48

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an authentic educational leader as principal,
superintendent, as parent, as a member of the
community, or as an educational expert?

• Professional Development
• an ongoing process through which an individual
  derives a cohesive sense of professional identity
  by integrating the broad-based knowledge, skills,
  and attitudes with ones values and interests
• (Ducheny, et al., 1997, p. 89)

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Leadership Diamond Principle

• Strategy Tactics
• Vision sees the larger perspective, for
  visioning means to think big and new.
• Reality responds to facts, for realism
  means to have no illusions.
• Ethics always sensitive to people, for ethics
  means to be of service.
• Courage a courageous leader always claims the
  power to initiate, act, and risk. with
  sustained initiative.
• Koestenbaum, P. (2002). Leadership The Inner
  Side to Greatness. pp. 41-52. San Francisco
  Jossey-Bass

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Discovering Your Authentic Leadership

• Authenticity requires a commitment to developing
  yourself
• (Sims, McLean, Mayer, 2007, p. 130)
• Through self-reflection on personal experiences,
  a leader is able to integrate their lives with
  others.
• The balance of internal and external motivations
  and tensions empowers a leader to make adequate
  decisions that will inevitably make a positive
  difference in the lives of others.

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Principle Research Question

• What does it mean to be an authentic educational
  leader?
• What does it mean to be an adult learner about
  becoming an adult educational leader?
• When do adults learn about becoming an authentic
  educational leader?
• How do adults learn about becoming an authentic
  educational leader?
• Where do adults learn about becoming an authentic
  educational leader?
• Why do adults learn about becoming an authentic
  educational leader?

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Subsidiary Research Questions

• What does it mean to be an authentic adult
  educator?
• What does it mean to be an authentic educational
  leader as teacher?
• What does it mean to be an authentic educational
  leader as principal, superintendent, as parent,
  as a member of the community, or as an
  educational expert?

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Students Teach Students Leadership Institute

• Vision
• Empowers students with skills, knowledge, and
  experience necessary to become educators for
  tomorrow
• Mission
• Students Teach Students Leadership Institute
  provides students within the academic community
  to develop and teach newly designed curriculum to
  their peers within an adult collaborative
  learning environment.

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Students Teach StudentsLeadership Institute

• Program Objectives
• Establish relationships with fellow educators
  within their respective fields of study.
• Learn to teach what we know and how we know what
  we know through personal story.
• Reflect upon our own personal experiences as an
  authentic leader and educator within the
  classroom and beyond.