Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
Revolutionizing Higher Education
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-088364-5
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on cultivating leadership in students. Woodruff advances a new view of liberal arts education that places leadership at the root of everything it does, so that students will be prepared to lead in their lives and careers--and not necessarily in management roles.
Woodruff views the contemporary university as sorely lacking an emphasis on leadership, and presents three core sets of recommendations for how they can and should foster it. First, Woodruff posits co-curricular groups, activities, and projects as essential activities for students to gain confidence and leadership skills. Administrations should encourage students to engage in activities outside the classroom, convert coached sports teams into student-led clubs as far as possible, and discourage social organizations that are segregated by race or sex.
Second, Woodruff advocates for a different curriculum for all undergraduates, no matter their major-arguing that they need to be taught leadership in the forms of key skills including communication (including good writing, listening, and speaking), as well as exposure to key material in history literature, social science, and ethics. Students should be asked to consider the hardest ethical dilemmas that leaders face, toggling between Machiavelli and great ethical thinkers such as Confucius and Socrates.
Third, Woodruff calls for the teaching methods used by instructors to re-orient themselves around the question of leadership, particularly by emphasizing teamwork. Professors should respect their students' independence, avoid tyrannical teaching, and remember that all teachers teach ethics simply by the examples they set in dealing with students.
Whether in engineering, music, or classics, The Garden of Leaders advances leadership as a core value that should be at the heart of the educational enterprise-contending that while a college campus can be many things, it should at the very least be a ground upon which new leaders can grow.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- PART I: UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP
- Chapter 1: Alexander the Great Had Aristotle
- Freedom
- Nature
- Society
- Where Do Leaders Come From?
- Can We Have Too Many Leaders?
- Why a University?
- The Plan of This Book
- Why I Write This Book
- Chapter 2: Leading from Freedom
- The Un-Tyrant
- Giving Shape to Freedom: The Lifeboat
- Leading with Authority: Beyond Carrots and Sticks
- Describing Leaders?
- The Charismatic Dictator
- The Art of Following
- Learning from Women
- Leaders: An Endangered Species?
- Chapter 3: Messianic Leadership: Joan the Maid
- Joan the Maid
- Shaw's Saint Joan
- Joan's Holy Ignorance
- Educating Joan?
- Chapter 4: Natural Leadership: Billy Budd
- Nature's Best Child
- Melville's Billy Budd
- The Billys Among Us
- Why Educate for Leadership?
- PART II: WHAT TO LEARN
- Chapter 5: Educating Billy
- The Garden of Not Eden
- Learning from the Outside World
- Learning in the Classroom
- Using Data
- Readings for Future Leaders
- Chapter 6: Facing Evil: Learning Guile
- This Side of Paradise
- Failures of Leadership at Melos (Thucydides)
- Machiavelli's Prince
- The Limits of Guile (Sophocles' Philoctetes)
- Facing Evil in Organizations: Defeating the Immune System
- Chapter 7: Facing Evil in Ourselves: Justice and Compassion
- Seeing Danger
- Understanding Your Own Faults in Others
- Compassion
- Unblocking Compassion
- Justice and Self-Knowledge
- Facing Your Faults in Others: Bartleby's Boss
- Know Thyself
- Chapter 8: Facing Complexity: Leadership and Lying
- The Knock on the Door
- The Leadership Dilemma: Home Team vs. the World
- Moral Dilemmas
- Machiavelli: Breaking the Rules
- Following the Rules
- Living Well with Complexity
- Chapter 9: Facing Fear, Showing Courage
- Facing Enemies
- Facing Friends
- Listening
- Loving
- Leaving
- Showing Courage
- Chapter 10: Finding Courage
- What Sort of Thing is Courage?
- Courage with Others
- False Courage
- False Cowardice
- Faking It?
- Truing Courage
- Sources of Courage
- Sources of Failure
- Chapter 11: Performing Leadership
- Performing Leadership: George Washington at Newburgh
- Wearing the Face of Leadership
- Hiding Faults
- Hypocrisy: Tartuffe and Alceste
- Defining Hypocrisy
- Looking as Good as You Try to Be
- Hard Questions
- Integrity
- Chapter 12: Good Ears, Strong Voices
- Good ears
- Strong Voices
- Technology: Beyond Words
- Overcoming Differences
- Character: The Finest Example
- Chapter 13: Becoming Magnetic
- Virtues, or Beauties of the Soul
- What Leaders Must Become (and Followers Too)
- Character with Commitment
- Making Character Shine
- Character in Community
- Character and Diversity
- Wei Wu Wei (Silent Leadership)
- PART III: CHANGING HOW WE TEACH AND LEARN
- Chapter 14: Tyrant Teaching
- The Lesson: Be Silent
- Mind-Murder: The Accomplices
- Students
- Housekeepers
- Mind-Murder: The Perpetrators
- The Authority Trap
- The Coverage Trap
- Chapter 15: Teaching Ethical Failure
- Ethical Hubris
- Moral Holidays
- Turning our Backs on Values: The Gorgias Syndrome
- Not Believing in What We Teach
- Chapter 16: A Campus Revolution
- What We Learn
- How We Learn
- First, Agree on Goals
- Second, Every Teacher Teaches Ethics
- Third, Stop Teaching
- Fourth, Students Hire Coaches
- Fifth, Give Students Time
- Sixth, Trust Students
- And, Last, a Plea to Parents
- Discovery
- Chapter 17: Epilogue: Summary of Recommendations for Change
- Chapter 18: Supporting Materials
- A. Leadership and the Humanities
- B. Classroom Study Guides and Further Reading
- C. Using Teams for Leadership Experience
