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Nurturing future leadership skills in five to eight year-old children through self-awareness activities.

Journal of Leadership Studies

| September 22, 2001 | Scheer, Scott D.; Safrit, R. Dale | COPYRIGHT 2001 Baker College System - Center for Graduate Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Executive Summary

There is an increasing emphasis in formal and community-based education on youth leadership through self-awareness development via community service: Community service programs often focus upon a "remedial" context, attempting to encourage community leadership among high school students who are about to assume adult roles and responsibilities. This paper introduces a new approach to community service using a proven developmentally age-appropriate curriculum that nurtures self-awareness, the building block for leadership skills, in five to eight year--old children. This experiential-based, discovery-learning curriculum is easily utilized in the ...

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