Emerging Leaders Create Case Studies to Investigate Leadership Dilemmas

• In Event: Roundtable Session 90
  In Roundtable Session: The Development and Preparation of Leaders: Perspectives and Voices From the Field

Abstract

The ever-increasing demands on educational leaders call for preparation that includes multiple opportunities to apply theory and conceptual knowledge to practice. For over half a century the case method, borrowed from the fields of medicine, law, and business administration, has been employed in the preparation of educational leaders. What happens when graduate students are asked to write and present their own cases based on their own observations and experiences in the field? This study brings a nested “case” approach as it (1) describes a use of case studies as pedagogy, (2) provides an analysis of students’ reflections on the case study learning experience (3) uses case study methodology to describe case study as pedagogy.

Authors

• Peg Winkelman, California State University - East Bay

• Michelle P. Collay, University of New England