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Adam I. Silver; Rob Marshall; Dave Huston; Greg Gentry – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: The United States Air Force Academy's Center for Character and Leadership Development developed the 'Adventure and Experiential Based Learning' (AEBL) course--a new experiential education summer course intended to develop interpersonal leadership skills in 1,100 sophomore cadets. Purpose: Improving cadet emotional intelligence (EI) is…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Adventure Education, Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning
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Long, Sheri Spaine; Derby, LeAnn; Scharff, Lauren; LeLoup, Jean W.; Uribe, Daniel – Dimension, 2015
The ACTFL [American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages] 21st Century Skills Map (2011) proposes incorporating "leadership and responsibility" into language learning (LL). This study offers a foundational framework for combined LL and leadership development (LD) and contains a snapshot of the presence of LD in the language…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Second Language Instruction, Modern Language Curriculum, Feedback (Response)
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Long, Sheri Spaine; Rasmussen, James – Dimension, 2017
This article reports on the integration of leadership studies into upper-level foreign language literature classes in German and Spanish in two undergraduate programs--a military university (USAFA) and a civilian university (UNC Charlotte). Taking into account ACTFL's [American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages] 21st Century Skills Map…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), German
Higginbotham, David L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study leveraged the complementary nature of confirmatory factor (CFA), item response theory (IRT), and latent class (LCA) analyses to strengthen the rigor and sophistication of evaluation of two new measures of the Air Force Academy's "leader of character" definition--the Character Mosaic Virtues (CMV) and the Leadership Mosaic…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Personality Development, Military Training, Leadership Training
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Lindsay, Douglas R.; Hassan, Anthony M.; Day, David V. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
This paper examines the core academic leader development course at the United States Air Force Academy. The course serves as the foundation for individual leader development that is integrated across all four years of the student's education. The basic approach uses a self-study where the student selects a current leadership role and that role…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Leadership Training, Military Training