• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Rethinking women's leadership development: Voices from the Trenches
  • Contributor: Selzer, Robin [Author]; Howton, Amy [Author]; Wallace, Felicia [Author]
  • imprint: Basel: MDPI, 2017
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci7020018
  • ISSN: 2076-3387
  • Keywords: women's leadership ; intersectionality ; higher education ; gender equity ; identity ; career advancement ; leadership program evaluation
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  • Description: As recent graduates of a women's-only leadership development program in higher education in the United States, we used autoethnography as a research methodology to provide critical insight into effective women's leadership programming and evaluation. The potential of this methodology as both a learning process and product helped elucidate two key findings: (1) to effectively develop women leaders, work must be done at the personal, interpersonal, and organizational levels, as these levels are interrelated and interdependent; and (2) women's multiple identities must be engaged. Therefore, relationship-building should be a central learning outcome and facilitated through program curricula, pedagogical methods, and evaluation. Including autoethnography as a program evaluation methodology fills a gap in the literature on leadership development, and supports our goal of making meaning of our personal experiences in order to enhance women's leadership development.
  • Access State: Open Access
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