1: Framing Leadership for Practice

Leadership is one of the least understood concepts, although it is one of the most discussed topics. 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 to focus on how leadership is learned and used through theories, models, and concepts. It discusses how 22 chapters of this book is dedicated to introducing various leadership theories and models. These theory focused chapters situate the theories and concepts back with the scholars who created them.