1: Importance of Cultural Relevance in Leadership Learning

Leadership education has a unique call to serve the needs of a diverse set of students within a higher education context. The culturally relevant leadership learning (CRLL) model can be utilized as one way to understand leadership learning. This chapter presents leadership as a process that requires leaders and followers in a specific context. It also discusses how leadership is socially constructed and transdisciplinary in nature. This first chapter introduces how the book is set up and how it offers 40 case studies in which educators and learners can engage in complex situations rooted in one of the eight aspects of the CRLL model.