Decolonizing Leadership Knowledge: Context, Culture, and Complexity

Program Type: General Interest Session

Professional Competencies: Leadership, Social Justice and Inclusion

Target Groups: Graduate Preparation Faculty, New Professionals

Institution Types: Large Universities, Minority Serving Institutions

Certification Domains: Social Justice and Inclusion, Leadership

Abstract

Leadership knowledge is viewed as an “essential aspect of overall leadership learning” (Guthrie & Jenkins, 2018, p. 58). Yet, questions abound as to who decides what forms of knowledge are recognized as legitimate. This session is based on an article written for the New Directions for Student Leadership that reviews existing frames of leadership knowledge, along with prior attempts to codify leadership knowledge. In this session, we will examine the function of leadership knowledge within the leadership learning framework (LLF, Jenkins & Guthrie, 2018) and explore how it connects to and illuminates other facets of the LLF model while exploring critical questions that aid in unpacking and decolonizing the acquisition of leadership knowledge.

Presenters

• Derrick Pacheco
  Graduate Assistant
  Florida State University
• Julie Owen
  Assoc. Professor, Leadership Studies, George Mason University
• Aoi Yamanaka
  Associate Professor & Associate Director of Academic Services, George Mason University