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Incorporating Leadership Education into Undergraduate Courses: Utilizing a Duoethnographic Perspective

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As contemporary leadership practices continue to evolve with rapid globalization, the need for leadership education has never been more urgent. Thus, in recent years, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) introduced new initiatives mostly targeting graduate education to foster next-generation global leaders. However, due to Japan’s traditional recruitment system, which pressures students to secure employment even before graduating from university, most students never choose to pursue graduate studies. As a result, these initiatives have failed to bear fruitful results. In this chapter, we share our personal experiences as two Japanese university teachers on how we integrated leadership education into undergraduate-level courses in our distinctly different educational environments and discuss its potential implications for leadership education at the undergraduate level. We utilize a duoethnography method to share our lived experiences through dialogical narratives. As co-authors with similar educational backgrounds, we developed our individual leadership programs in different educational environments. Our experiences show that understanding the various possible leadership philosophies and incorporating insights gained from regular self-reflection, and feedback from students and other stakeholders into an adaptive and evolving program has the potential for effective leadership education at the undergraduate level.

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Egitim, S., Boyce, M.C. (2023). Incorporating Leadership Education into Undergraduate Courses: Utilizing a Duoethnographic Perspective. In: Egitim, S., Umemiya, Y. (eds) Leaderful Classroom Pedagogy Through an Interdisciplinary Lens. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6655-4_1

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