Community effects of leadership development education : citizen empowerment for civic engagement / Kenneth Pigg [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pigg, Kenneth E., author.

Pigg, Kenneth, author.

Contributor:

Project Muse, Content Provider.

Series:

Rural studies series (Morgantown, W.V.) ; Volume 3.

Rural Studies Series ; Volume 3

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. These programs fill gaps in what people know about governance and the processes of governance, especially at the local level. The work of many in this field is a response to the recognition that in smaller, rural communities, disadvantaged neighborhoods, or disaster areas, the skills and aptitudes needed for citizens to be successful leaders are often missing or underdeveloped. Community Effects of Leadership Development Education presents the results of a five-year study tracking community-level effects of community leadership development programs drawn from research conducted in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, South Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. As the first book of its kind to seek answers to the question of whether or not the millions of dollars invested each year in community leadership development programs are valuable in the real world, this book challenges researchers, community organizers, and citizens to identify improved ways of demonstrating the link from program to implementation, as well as the way in which programs are conceived and designed. This text also explores how leadership development programs relate to civic engagement, power and empowerment, and community change, and it demonstrates that community leadership development programs really do produce community change. At the same time, the findings of this study strongly support a relational view of community leadership, as opposed to other traditional leadership models used for program design. To complement their findings, the authors have developed CENCE, a new model for community leadership development programs, which links leadership development efforts to community development by understanding how Civic Engagement, Networks, Commitment, and Empowerment work together to produce community viability. "

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EFFECTS ON COMMUNITY ; 1. Community Leadership; 2. Impact of Leadership Development Programs on Individual Participants ; 3. Program Outcomes in Organizational Behavior; 4. Community Leadership Development's Effects on Community ; 5. Participant Diversity, Curriculum Design, and Community Effects ; 6. Designing More Effective Community Leadership Development Programs ; PART II: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION ; 7. New Directions for Community Leadership Development

8. Community Leadership Relies on Social Cohesion9. Toward a General Theory of Community Leadership?; Notes; Appendices; References; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 2, 2015).

ISBN:

1-940425-59-X

1-940425-60-3

OCLC:

912320781