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Abstract
This paper examines formations of the ‘self’ as a wise leader at both personal and professional levels. Drawing on Aristotle and theories of reflective and experiential learning, the possibility of cultivating wisdom through an experience of a leadership course, provided at the University of Melbourne for PhD candidates, is explored. Applying an autoethnographic methodology, a reflexive account of a doctoral student who experienced this programme is narrated to explore the (re)construction of a wiser ‘self’. A synthesis of multiple points of personal and collective judgements, decision-making and performative actions leads to promising implications for future research, and for deeper pedagogical practices in leadership programmes.
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Notes on contributors
Mahtab Janfada, PhD, is a lecturer in Language and Literacy Education at the retired from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne. Her expertise is in critical and dialogic pedagogy, TESOL, second language curriculum, and pedagogical interventions in English for Academic Purposes. She was formerly an Academic at Tehran University Language Centre.
David Beckett is a professor of Education, retired from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne. His expertise is in adult and community education, educational policy and history and philosophy of education. He has published more than 300 works and supervised more than 50 theses in these areas. His latest books are ‘Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice’ (co-edited, Routledge, 2016) and on complexity thinking in education (2018, forthcoming).