Sustainable Leadership of Senior Students: The Case Study of Madeira

• Authors: António Bento , Isabel Ribeiro
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Secondary education plays a key role in developing sustainable leadership skills in students. This research analyses the characteristics of sustainable leadership of students at 2 secondary schools in Madeira Island (Portugal) in order to determine whether the type of school or gender of the students affect eight distinct domains: 1) self management; 2) interpersonal relations; 3) problem solving/decision making; 4) cognitive critical development/analysis; 5) organization and planning; 6) self-confidence; 7) diversity awareness; 8) technology. The Student Leadership Outcomes Inventory (SLOI) (Vann, 2000) was used to measure the leadership experiences of 158 senior students in these eight areas. Participants revealed moderate levels of sustainable leadership in the eight sub-scales. The findings show that students of Madeira Island who finish secondary education possess several well-developed sustainable leadership skills.

Keywords

EN

sustainable leadership; sustainable leadership skills; sustainable leadership abilities; competencies

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 66-74

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-06-07

Contributors

author

António Bento

• University of Madeira (CIE-UMa), Portugal

author

Isabel Ribeiro

• Mountain Research Centre – Polytechnical Institute of Bragança, Portugal

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-009-0047-9