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Moving from Competing to Complementary: Understanding the Influence of Personal Narratives When Designing Leadership Studies Curriculum
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GuramatunhuCooper, Nyasha M.; Lyons, Linda M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
Leadership Studies education is a highly personal endeavor shaped by the personal experiences and philosophies of leadership educators. However, when course design collaboration opportunities are presented, teaching approaches and curriculum prioritization may be at odds because of distinct personal narratives. This article frames disagreement…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Leadership Training, Curriculum Design, Educational Philosophy
"Traditions" and Cultural Production: Character Training at the Achimota School in Colonial Ghana
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Yamada, Shoko – History of Education, 2009
This paper investigates the educational philosophy and practices of Achimota School, which was established in the Gold Coast Colony (the southern part of today's Ghana) in 1927 as the governmental model school for leadership education. Achimota's education aimed to develop leaders who were "Western in intellectual attitude",…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
Education, Employment and Human Resource Development. Report of a Sub-regional Intensive Training Course (Buea, Cameroon, April 2-13, 1991).
Sanyal, B. C.; And Others – 1991
Participants from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone met as educational planners to seek alternative methods of planning under the changing conditions of education, employment, and human resource development in their countries. The articles presented during the training course include: (1) "Education and Employment in…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational Development