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How do we teach and learn Servant Leadership?
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 We define project-based learning as:
A form of active learning that focuses on teaching and learning servant leadership by engaging student teams in extended inquiry processes structured around complex, authentic questions with the purpose of enhancing organizational capacity and making progress toward solving societal problems and meeting organizational needs.
Project-based learning is a pedagogy for teaching and learning servant leadership. It encourages students to discover their calling by helping them find their soul: discover their strengths, passions (their heart), and the needs of those around them. It teaches them servant leadership by increasing their emotional intelligence and process thinking capabilities. Project-based learning is consistent with the belief that "true learning is based on discovery guided by mentoring rather than the transmission of knowledge" (John Dewey).
Students engaged in project-based learning are guided by CFL's Servant Leader-in-Residence. This mentor helps students:
- Open their hearts so they can feel the needs (CFL Stories),
- Find their souls by reflecting on how the needs they feel match the gifts God gave them (reflect),
- Exercise their hands by experimenting and innovating (do), and
- Involve their minds by evaluating and learning what works and why and then adjusting plans (think).
CFL promotes project-based learning in many venues including LDRS 201: Introduction to Leadership; LDRS 391: Independent Study Team Project, in which students engage in problem-defining and problem solving from a social entrepreneur's perspective; LDRS 401: Leadership Capstone Seminar; ASI Consulting, and others.
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