Leadership education and civic engagement

Carmine Perrotti and Tania D. Mitchell

Chapter 26 in Handbook on Leadership Education and Impact, 2025, pp 332-346 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, we draw upon critical scholars and practitioners, including Ella Baker, Kelly Hayes, and Mariame Kaba, to situate activism and community organizing as a forward-thinking proposition to advance leadership education and civic engagement, specifically within US higher education. We begin by reviewing select literature on how leadership education has been understood in the civic engagement realm over the past decade, including through high impact practices, such as service-learning and other community-engaged pedagogies. We then highlight critically oriented leadership theories that emphasize opportunities for leadership education to develop students’ capacities towards becoming justice-oriented citizens, including the Social Change; Social Action, Leadership and Transformation; and Strategic Social Change models. Finally, we demonstrate, through examples from our own teaching, how activism and organizing provide the necessary knowledge and skills needed for students’ leadership development on and off campus as well as for their lives beyond college.

Keywords: Leadership education; Civic engagement; Community service; Activism; Community organizing; Leadership development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035326211
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