Utilizing film as a teaching tool in a personal leadership development course helped undergraduate students synthesize authentic leadership concepts. Iron Jawed Angels facilitated the culminating lesson as students applied course concepts to an observed leader. Three objectives guided the final lesson: (a) critique Alice Paul’s leadership as it relates to the components of the Discovering Leadership Framework described in Discovering the Leader in You, (b) identify key film scenes, quotes, and characters, applying them to course concepts and Alice Paul, and (c) analyze Alice Paul’s leadership as it relates to authentic leadership development. Four class meetings were designated for the final lesson. Students viewed the film on days one and two, and days three and four were spent identifying, critiquing, and analyzing Alice Paul’s leadership.
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January 15 2016
Using Film to Teach Authentic Leadership
Meagan Scott;
Meagan Scott
1
Graduate Teaching Associate, Oklahoma State University
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Penny Pennington Weeks
Penny Pennington Weeks
2
Professor, Oklahoma State University
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing on behalf of Association of Leadership Educators
Online ISSN: 1552-9045
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Journal of Leadership Education (2016) 15 (1): 140–149.
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Scott M, Weeks PP (2016), "Using Film to Teach Authentic Leadership". Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 15 No. 1 pp. 140–149, doi: https://doi.org/10.12806/V15/I1/A5
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