Enhancing identity development at senior service colleges / Thomas P. Galvin.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Galvin, Thomas P., author.

Contributor:

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher.

Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.

Series:

Letort papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Identity (Psychology).

Military education--United States.

Military education.

Career development--United States.

Career development.

United States--Armed Forces--Officers--Education (Graduate).

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 62 pages).

Place of Publication:

Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Identity development is touted as an important leader development need, but it often gets short shrift in professional military education (PME) environments, including the Senior Service Colleges (SSC). The inculcation of professional values, resiliency, and critical and reflective thought are essential to properly operationalizing the skills and knowledge learned in an SSC, but they are highly subjective, difficult to measure, and therefore difficult to develop educational activities around. New policies for officer and civilian professional education include provisions for developing leaders, such as the recent inclusion of six Desired Leader Attributes (DLAs) in the Joint officer PME continuum, but it remains unclear how to operationalize those goals. This Letort Paper presents a way ahead using role identities and Bloom's affective domain to identify developmental objectives to parallel the development of skills and knowledge in SSC programs and shows how this approach can be generalized across PME"--Publisher's web site.

Contents:

Introduction

The professional identity of senior leaders. The challenges of leader identity development

Constructing one's leader identity

Why identity construction matters to senior leaders

The role identity as an educational tool. Comparing role identity to other metaphors

The proposed eight role identities of senior leaders

Four "persistent" identities of senior leaders

Four "mission-specific" identities of senior leaders

Summary

Operationalizing role identities in SSC curricula. Setting identity construction objectives using Bloom's affective domain

Leveraging extracurricular activities as developmental opportunities

Generalizability across SSC programs and PME continuum

Conclusion.

Notes:

"December 2016."

Print version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-62).

Online resource, PDF version; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed December 14, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version: Galvin, Thomas P. Enhancing identity development at senior service colleges

OCLC:

965911941