Contexts and community leadership: Inquiry as an ecological expedition.

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Community leadership is a compelling topic for study because it illuminates the connections between ordinary citizens as leaders and the contexts of the communities in which they live. A 9-year ecological expedition documenting the development of African American community leaders on the south side of Chicago is described. The collaborative research process between the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Developing Communities Project generated the topics and methods of inquiry! Examples are given of how the collaborative process enhanced the quality and salience of the documentation. The role of metaphors is also discussed, which helped to further elaborate the shared meanings of expressed leadership.. Examples are presented of methods (leadership trees) created to present the findings interviews with 80 community leaders. These leadership trees are examples of context-specific methods derived from the ecological expedition.

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