Developing Leadership in the Asia Pacific

Developing Leadership in the Asia Pacific focuses on the design of leadership programmes that are able to meet the needs of students, teachers, and the wider community. Rather than taking an all-encompassing approach that covers all contexts of leadership development, this book is based on research that guides the leadership teacher in designing a course that considers the specific context and needs of individual students, the purpose of the course, and how the course can be evaluated for its effectiveness.

Emphasising learner diversity, the book argues that the students’ specific cultural and educational contexts need to be considered when designing leadership programmes. Although these courses are often taught outside of the regular curriculum, components of leadership can be found in the regular curriculum. Accordingly, this book helps the leadership teacher to integrate the leadership programme with the regular curriculum through the use of guiding questions, quizzes, case studies, dilemmas, and other pedagogical strategies. It links research with practice, scaffolding teachers in understanding the content or issues described in each chapter, and assists them in building a fully defensible leadership programme. A number of real-life worked examples are also provided throughout each chapter as a practicable framework that can be used in teaching design for everyday units of work.

This book is a useful reference for researchers working in leadership as well as an essential tool for teachers developing leadership programmes for students in primary, secondary or tertiary contexts.