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Where Do I Belong?: Gender And/Or Sexual Minority Students And Leaders In International Schools, Douglas J. Beam
Where Do I Belong?: Gender And/Or Sexual Minority Students And Leaders In International Schools, Douglas J. Beam
Doctor of Education Program Dissertations
The heteronormative ordering of schools poses challenges for gender and/or sexual minorities (GSM). GSM leaders in schools are challenged by decisions about whether to come out of the closet and the implications that these decisions can have for the leadership they enact and their career trajectories. Meanwhile, GSM students face difficulties including identity-based victimization and diminished sense of belonging in school. The experiences of attending high school are further complicated for students who attend an international school outside their country of origin. This qualitative investigation explored how GSM former students at international schools experienced a sense of belonging at school …
Cross-Cultural Leadership: Best Practices In Multinational Graduate Education, Carol Anne Kerr
Cross-Cultural Leadership: Best Practices In Multinational Graduate Education, Carol Anne Kerr
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The international security environment depends in part on professional military leaders with the knowledge, skills and attributes to execute a broad range of leadership communication, collaboration and negotiations with counterparts in complex international and intercultural settings. If higher education is the path to cognition, metacognition, motivation and behavior, then it may be an effective instrument for developing leadership readiness for a range of international/inter-cultural tasks. This study explores US military leaders’ perceptions about graduate-level, senior professional military education alongside foreign military officers at the U.S. Army War College as an influence on readiness for decision-making, cultural adaptation, and task performance …