About the course:
This interdisciplinary capstone course is designed to give senior-level students an opportunity to demonstrate their leadership, communications and technology skills through active engagement in a self-directed change project. Building on assignments completed in previous courses, students are responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating an experiential learning project that draws on their talents, interests, strengths and skills to facilitate change in a personal, family, organizational and/or community setting.
Assignment: Network Leadership, Power, and Social Change
In this module, we read about:
http://leadershiplearning.org/blog/claire-reinelt/2010-05-18/how-network-leadership-different-organizational-leadership-and-why-un
Please respond to the following two questions, keeping those readings in mind:
1. Describe in your own words why network leadership can be an effective model for leading social change. How is it similar or different from other kinds of leadership you have studied? Do you see yourself as a network leader? Why or why not?
A little about me: I am a 40 year old paraprofessional working with students aged 18-22 that have autism. We teach them life skills to transition them to be able to apply for work, have a job, prepare a meal, shop, clean and do laundry, and try to live life independently. I do consider myself a network leader.
2. Explain the difference between power over, power with, and power to in your own words. Briefly explain how you see power operating within the system that you are trying to change in your social action project. How might you capitalize on the resources you have at your disposal to respond to the power structures that you are dealing with?
My Social Action Project will be on Special Education Transition Planning for Young Adults.
Other articles on leadership:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/579ea07b414fb51257607b72/t/585b0f688419c2bcdd8b8400/1482362729525/I-We-It-LeadershipforSocialChange.pdf
https://justassociates.org/sites/justassociates.org/files/mch3_2011_final_0.pdf
