Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: A Collaborative Syllabus for Higher Education Leadership book cover with bright geometric shapes in background

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Introducing the first section of the collection (course), the editors ground “experience” in the inspirational thinking of John Dewey, one of the progenitors of education in the US (and internationally, in many ways). “Experience,” Dewey wrote, “…is meaningless transition unless it is consciously connected with the return wave of consequences which flow from it” (1916, 139, emphasis added). Each contributor in this part of the collection offers opportunities to observe what leaders learn from experience and how they do it, learning to lead from deliberate and intentional metacognitive activity as part of their practice. 

Discussion Questions

  • How do you define “experience”?
  • Is your definition of “experience” connected to what follows an experience? 
  • How do your colleagues define “experience?” Are your definitions aligned?