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Unit Learning Objectives:
Develop and explain a strategy for leadership given cultural and gender expectations and differences; Explain the concept of charismatic leadership, its potentials and limits; Describe how the media packages a person to be considered a hero, a leader, or both; Explain the role of leadership to initiate and build strong communities. Detail the psychological and personality theories that could explain the behaviors of leaders such as Mother Jones, "mad messiahs," dictatorships, self-sacrificing leaders and heroes. List attributes of effective leaders.
Online Readings: Hours of Opportunity, Volume 1 Lessons from Five Cities on Building Systems to Improve After-School, Summer School, and Other Out-of-School-Time Programs by Susan J. Bodilly, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Nate Orr, Ethan Scherer, Louay Constant, Daniel Gershwin High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their OST systems. The overall goals of the initiative were to increase access, improve quality, develop information systems for decisionmaking, and plan for financial stability.
Charismatic Leadership: Pro's, Con's, References, Dark Side
Extraordinary Governance and Non-Traditional Leadership Over the course of the last two decades, three urban school districts--Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans--have undertaken extraordinary systemic reform shaped by major changes to their governance structures and led by a non-traditional leader focused first on an operations-based strategy.
What Is Your Leadership Script? The Script "My life is a script" is a coined phrase used by one of my tech guys in regards to recent events with the software that I manage. This phrase stimulated my thinking in what is a life script and who is in charge of writing our scripts?
Subordinate Perception of Leadership Style and Power: A Cross-Cultural Investigation (Master's thesis -- good review of concepts)
References and Readings (check D2L):
Berger, P. and Luckmann, T. Society as a Human Product. In The Social Construction of Reality (1966).
Elms, Alan. (2004) Personality Theory: Theories I find most useful.
Erikson, E. Eight States of Human Development. McAdams, D. P. (2001) When Bad Things Turn Good and Good Things Turn Bad: Sequences of Redemption and Contamination in Life Narrative and Their Relation to Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults and in Students. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2001, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 474-485(12).
McAdams, D. P. et al (1996) Themes of Agency and Communion in Significant Autobiographical Scenes. Journal of Personality, Jun96, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p339, 39p, 4 charts (large file -- use fast connection if possible)
McAdams, D. P. (1993). The stories we live by: Personal myths and the making of the self. New York: Morrow.
McAdams, D. P. (2001). The psychology of life stories. Review of General Psychology, 5(2), 100-122.
Tomkins, S. S. (1978). Script theory: Differential magnification of affects. In H. E. Howe, & R. A. Dienstbier (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Vol. 26, pp. 201-236) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Tomkins, S. S. (1981). The quest for primary motives. Biography and autobiography of an idea. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 306-329.
Tomkins, S. S. (1987). Script theory. In J. Aronoff, A. I. Rabin et al. (Eds.), The emergence of personality: Michigan State University-Henry A. Murray lectures in personality (pp. 147-216). New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Tomkins, S. S. (1988). Scripting the macho man: Hypermasculine socialization and enculturation. Journal of Sex Research, Vol 25(1), Feb 1988. pp. 60-84. (large file -- need fast connection)
Personology and the narrative interpretation of lives. Barresi, John; Juckes, Tim J.; Journal of Personality, Vol 65(3), Sep 1997. pp. 693-719. (large file -- need fast connection)
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