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How Military Schools Reconcile Compliance, Authority, and Authenticity in Adolescent Leadership: Purpose, Environment, and Agency

How Military Schools Reconcile Compliance, Authority, and Authenticity in Adolescent Leadership: Purpose, Environment, and Agency
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Author(s): Kelly C. Jordan (American Military University of American Public University System, USA)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 25
Source title: Handbook of Research on Character and Leadership Development in Military Schools
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mark Patrick Ryan (National University, USA)and Timothy L. Weekes (Holy Names University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6636-7.ch009

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Abstract

Adults and adolescents are different, as are adolescent girls and teenage boys, but it is unclear if or how these differences impact their ideas about leadership. Adults prioritize compliance, obedience, and conformity, while adolescents advocate autonomy, independence, and ingenuity. Adolescent girls prefer a relational, inclusive, collaborative leadership style with a spiritual generative culture that values consensus, while teenage boys prefer an action-oriented and hierarchical leadership style with an empowered dynamic culture that rewards initiative and innovation. Authentic leadership is effective at accommodating the expectations and needs of adults, adolescent girls, and teenage boys, and it generates its own unique empowered generative culture that benefits all constituencies. Military school objectives, adolescents' preferred leadership characteristics, and authentic leadership are quite congruent with one another, and this potent combination makes military schools particularly effective in their main purpose of developing effective authentic adolescent leaders.

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