Constructive Destabilization Within the Liminal Space: Doing, Debriefing, and Deliberating in Mixed-Reality Simulations

• In Event: School Principals' Competency, Efficacy, and Practices

Abstract

Abstract
The purpose of this presentation will be to discuss a qualitative case study was to explore how educational leadership students journeyed through liminality within simulation experiences.

Participants within the simulation experience experienced constructive destabilization within liminality and negotiated this disequilibrium to develop new concepts, skills, and attitudes. The simulations provoked vulnerability, difficult emotions along with regulation, and paradoxes that participants negotiated toward an emerging leader identity. Navigating this turbulence was the necessary process toward a reconstituted leader-self. The process of journeying through this liminal state of constructive destabilization was necessary to facilitate growth and leadership development.

Author

• Jody S. Piro, Western Connecticut State University