Document Type
Report
Publication Date
1994
Abstract
For the past twenty years the University of Colorado at Boulder has offered a leadership training program called The Presidents Leadership Class (PLC) which uses service learning as a fundamental strategy for developing leadership values and skills. Training in PLC is focused around an eight-point vision of ideal leadership characteristics and central to that vision is the belief that leaders should conceive of their actions as they relate to the broader good in society; they should participate in community service activities and forums. The goal is to shape self-concept in ways that make service to one s community seem like a natural activity. Thus, in PLC service is a basic objective and experientially based service learning is a fundamental part of the pedagogy. For the purposes of this discussion I will use PLC as an example of some of the ways in which service learning can benefit leadership development.
Recommended Citation
Billingsley, Ronald G., "Leadership Training and Service Learning" (1994). Service Learning, General. 102.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/slceslgen/102