Abstract
Postsecondary leadership experiences provide students opportunities to gain, enhance, and refine capacities useful in addressing the complex challenges of the world. Our exploratory, descriptive qualitative study examined the motivations of postsecondary students to engage in long-term curricular leadership education (CLE) programs. Interviews and focus groups from 29 participants identified expected outcomes, program characteristics, and social encouragement to be three primary motivators that interact to describe student engagement in CLE programs. This formed a basis for our initial conceptualization of curricular leadership education motivation of postsecondary students. Our findings serve as a foundation to explore postsecondary student motivation to enhance the practice and scholarship of leadership education. We offer a conceptual model illustrating our results as well as recommendations for practice and research.
Citation
Traini, H.Q., Pauley, C.M., McKim, A.J., Velez, J.J. and Simonson, J.C. (2021), "EXPLORING STUDENT MOTIVATIONS TO ENGAGE IN CURRICULAR LEADERSHIP EDUCATION", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.12806/V20/I1/R1
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2021, The Journal of Leadership Education
License
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/