Explorations In Leadership Paper

Explorations In Leadership Paper

1. Answers for the questions for the assignment

2. Discussion Post

3. Draft Research PPT – Identify topic only

4. Journal

ITGS 400 Explorations in Leadership 

Required Texts:

Mandela, Nelson. (1995) Long Walk to Freedom. New York: Little Brown and Company Paperback. ISBN: 0-31654818-9. (Make sure that you have the full version, not an abridged version, otherwise you’ll not be able to complete assignments). Explorations In Leadership Paper. 

Module 1

Instructions:

• Do not delete the questions – simply indent your answers to retain the numbering system.
• Use a formal writing style and proofread for correct use of language.
• Write a short paragraph for each question, addressing each of the points mentioned.

The aim is generally threefold:

• to demonstrate your familiarity with the course materials. Provide as much information you consider necessary to achieve this end. Cite the page number in the text where you found the information using this format: “(Mandela, 2012, p. 5)” and for films, cite the director and date e.g., “(Attenborough, 1982)” or in the case of my own instructor videos, “(Woodward, 2007)”. For the book, check what date your edition is on the front inside cover, it might be the original from 1995, or a later publication. Explorations In Leadership Paper.  If you have an audio book, it likely states the publication date somewhere.
• to think critically about issues and comment on them
• to self-reflect on your own development of leadership to date and potential for the future. This is considered in a much broader sense than leadership within any official position and includes day-to-day lifestyle.

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Mandela: Part I

1. Why was Mandela’s father considered important in the community?
2. Comment on the role you think this may have played in developing Mandela’s future leadership.
3. Comment on any family member or other role model you have had in your life, describing how they have been a “leader” to you and impacted your life.

2. Describe two early indications that Mandela would become a troublemaker.
3. Comment on how “making trouble” might indicate qualities in a leader as it relates to the saying “no one who made history was ever well-behaved.”

3. Explain the issue underlying Mandela’s impending marriage.
4. Comment on any dilemma you have experienced between respecting family/cultural traditions and making independent life choices.

4. What ceremony marked the end of Mandela’s youth?
5. Comment on any milestone(s) in your own culture that indicates becoming an adult and what that signifies to you. Explorations In Leadership Paper.         

Mandela: Part 2 

5. When Mandela and Justice first entered the mines, what did they notice about how the hostels were segregated?
6. Even though racial segregation is not legal in the USA, discuss anything you notice about levels of various cultural or racial groups mixing or keeping to themselves in US society and comment on that.

6. When Mandela moved from the mines to the Johannesburg city center, at what type of firm did he find employment?
7. What did he consider significant about the culture/religion of the partners of the firm in how they treated black employees in their firm?
8. Comment on how the experience of discrimination (individual or group) can lead one to be more sensitive to the needs of others, including if you have any personal experience of this.

7. Having not completed his degree at Fort Hare University, Mandela then enrolled in a correspondence university to complete his courses. What was the first degree that Mandela obtained?
8. Comment on the practical conditions you face in achieving your degree compared with what Mandela faced during his undergraduate program?

8. What was Mandela’s economic situation during this early period of employment and study? Explorations In Leadership Paper.
9. Comment on how you’ve faced your own challenges in getting an education.

9. What was the pertinent cultural issue Mandela faced in having a possible future with Ellen, the woman he loved?
10. Comment on any way in which you’ve needed to pioneer your own path that may not have fallen in line with expectations of others. 

Instructor Interview Video (15 minutes) (attached)

1. As you can see above, you are being challenged to self-reflect on your own experiences and potential as a leader and to articulate this reflection in your assignments submitted your professor. This week view a 15-minute interview with the course instructor on her experience of racial issues growing up in South Africa. The short video this week is NOT intended as a model of leadership in ANY way – it simply allows you to get to know your professor a little better as she also does some personal sharing with you, and as you are sharing about yourself in your reflections to her. In this video, she shares about her background having been born in South Africa and growing up there.
2. In a short paragraph, describe your immediate thoughts and responses to any specific experiences of the instructor, as recounted in this video interview.
3. Explain very briefly your retrospective view on any circumstances in which you grew up (I grew up in Europe) and how those impact you in any way today.

DIME Documentary (25 minutes) https://hml.ewu.edu/player?autostart=n&fullscreen=y&width=720&height=480&videoId=3699&quality=hi&captions=n&chapterId=0

2. As you can see above, you are (as last week) being challenged to not only reflect on the materials read, but to self-reflect on your own experiences and potential as a leader and to articulate this reflection in your assignments submitted to your professor. The short video is NOT intended as a model of leadership in ANY way – it simply allows you to get to know your professor a little better as she also does some personal sharing with you, as you are sharing your thoughts with her. In this video, she shares about one of her personal projects that she initiated in addressing a social issue. It is hoped that you might then consider any kind of project you might initiate someday. Explorations In Leadership Paper.

 

Write a short paragraph with:

(A.) a brief comment on the program, including any value you think it might have had, followed by

(B.) a brief description of an idea for a possible project that you personally could initiate someday to impact society in line with your own field of professional or other interest.

ITGS 400 Explorations in Leadership 

Required Texts:

 

Mandela, Nelson. (1995) Long Walk to Freedom. New York: Little Brown and Company Paperback. ISBN: 0-31654818-9. (Make sure that you have the full version, not an abridged version, otherwise you’ll not be able to complete assignments). 

Module 1

Discussion Board Original Post

Original Post: Using informal writing style, discuss connections between the course materials (text and movie), such as themes that are found in both, or specific opposites/contrasts between the two. Where relevant, highlight issues of leadership and social change. Post an original response (minimum 250 words)  Explorations In Leadership Paper.

ITGS 400 Explorations in Leadership

 

Required Texts:

 

Mandela, Nelson. (1995) Long Walk to Freedom. New York: Little Brown and Company Paperback. ISBN: 0-31654818-9. (Make sure that you have the full version, not an abridged version, otherwise you’ll not be able to complete assignments).

 

Module 1

M1 Draft Research PPT – Identify topic only

Post one introductory slide to Discussion Board

Research Draft: Post one draft title slide only. Identify a leader in your own field of professional/personal interest on whom you hope to focus your research. Create a title specifying the name of the person plus the area in which the individual or group impacted social change. Include the title and your full name on the slide, saving the file under your last name only, followed by key words from the title (e.g., “Doe, Jane. Michelle Obama: Childhood Obesity”. For ideas on titles and what’s expected for the full project, view the sample projects and support on the Canvas course Module “Support for Research Project” provided.

Post one slide with your proposed title, your name as the author, and this course number ITGS 400. Have two components in the title, including:

(1) the name of the leader being investigated and

(2) the social impact identified.

Identify a specific leader in your own field of professional/personal interest on whom you plan to focus your individual research. You need to select a specific leader (or group of leaders) and a specific way in which they’ve impacted social change. Furthermore, you may want to limit the historical years covered and the scope of the person’s achievements.

For ideas on titles and on is expected of the final project, sample research PPTs (attached)

Do a quick search for relevant literature through the on-line library BEFORE you finalize a topic, to be sure there are at least 5 relevant peer-reviewed journal articles that you could use (references will be included in your draft next week).  Avoid book reviews – use the original source and follow the on-line guides provided.  Here are a few past examples to inspire you. Explorations In Leadership Paper. You may find a completely different topic. If you choose the same leader or social impact field as any of the following, you MUST create your own original title and NOT use exactly the same wording:

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Michelle Obama: Tackling the challenge of child obesity.

Malala: the 21st-century suffragette fighting the Pakistani Taliban for the right of women to education

Tawakkol Karman: Leader in the struggle for human rights in the Middle East

Muhammad Ali: A Leader in the ring and a leader for civil rights

Greta Thunberg:  The fight against the climate crisis

Business visionary, Henry Ford: US automotive production impacts society from 1908 – 1947

Socially responsible investment: Companies leading the way

King Abdullah: Leader for women’s education rights

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Changing the status quo in the US justice system

Ashton Kutcher: Fight against sex trafficking

Cesar Chavez: The Farm Workers Movement

Florence Nightingale: Founder of nursing

Sudan Saleema: The fight to end female genital mutilation

Henry J. Kaiser: The interdisciplinary forefather of the modern American West

Kendrick Lamar: A modern – Day oral tradition of Black America: Messages, warnings, and lessons told through rap.  Explorations In Leadership Paper.

Mental Health Advocacy: Demi Lovato’s fight for self-care and self-love.

Nellie Bly: Investigative journalist triggers reform of psychiatric hospitals

Walt Disney: The power of dreaming and creativity to influence generations

Eleanor Roosevelt: Champion of universal human rights

Mahatma Gandhi’s influence on the medical and psychology Field

William Wilberforce: Fight to abolish slavery in the British Empire

Jamie Oliver: Fighting Childhood obesity

Malala Yousafzai: Standing up to the Taliban

Greta Thunberg: The environmental leader teaching the global community

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Her fight for gender equality

Simone de Beauvoir:  An advocate of gender equality. Explorations In Leadership Paper.