NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Back to results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
ERIC Number: EJ1448091
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 36
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1052-5629
EISSN: EISSN-1552-6658
Looking for Development in Leadership Development: Assessing Learning for Reflexivity among Graduate Students
Timothy O'Brien
Journal of Management Education, v48 n6 p1054-1089 2024
Scholars have identified reflexivity, the ability to question what one might be taking for granted, as a critical meta-cognitive skill that management schools should cultivate amongst students. Reflexive learning though is a complex and idiosyncratic process. Little is known about how students experience this process, what they learn, or how a range of students representing different degrees of potential for reflexivity experience such a process differently. This article reports on a study using Kegan's Constructive Developmental Theory to assess how masters students at a professional school studying leadership and representing different developmental stages experience the same teaching methods for cultivating reflexivity. This work illuminates how students at different stages of development experience the same teaching method for cultivating reflexivity quite differently. Results indicate that for students with limited potential for reflexivity, there is profound developmental growth. Other students who began the course with existing reflexive capacity did not initially demonstrate skills of reflexivity. However, this group of students learned to practice reflexivity without actually interrogating their own assumptions in a way that represents developmental growth. I share details of the study and conclude with implications for teaching reflexivity across a diverse range of experience.
SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2993
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A