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

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 ...