Leadership Giftedness: Models Revisited
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gifted Child Quarterly
- Vol. 43 (1) , 13-24
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001698629904300103
Abstract
Following a reviews of adult models of leadership and of leadership programs for young people that are derived from adult theories of leadership, we report results from a decade-long study in under-served and at-risk communities of young people identified and promoted as leaders within out-of-school youth organizations. This work reveals how emerging youth leadership differs from established measures and leadership theories drawn from adults. Views and enactments of leadership among the young focus on how leadership happens, not all who leaders are as power figures, skillful managers, or individuals bearing specific traits. These perspectives from youth carry strong links to recent work in cognitive psychology and organizational sociology that maintains the key importance of adaptation, engagement with situation, and distribution of knowledge and roles.Keywords
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