Leadership for the Emerging Age: Transforming Practice in Adult and Continuing Education

By Jerry Apps

Jerold W. Apps draws on twenty-five years of experience researching and teaching leadership and leadership development to provide adult educators with a blueprint for developing a profoundly different approach to leadership--one that is all-embracing of ideas and people, capitalizes on diversity, and remains open and responsive to change.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787900362
• ISBN13: 9780787900366
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.7"

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Leadership for the Emerging Age

(C) 2004 Leadership for the Emerging age is about the emergence of leadership for adult educators. Program planners are being asked to learn new approaches to getting through to adult learners. Apps concludes we must include overlooked audiences, provide learning environments with both the traditional and distance types of learning, and provide a program, which exceeds standards and quality of the past. These changes are occurring everyday and the changes are created after a pattern of time. Therefore, the current and new leaders who are also called program planners must create a present type of teaching and foster an inventive learning for adult education. "The Purpose of this book is to: ~Examine the characteristics of this new era we are experiencing and its implications for adult learning.~To explore the dimensions of a leadership approach that fits the times.~To provide a series of practical suggestions for people who want to become leaders in the emerging age. This book is written for any program planners or leaders in adult education, those who are interested in learning how to become a leader, and those graduate students who are studying about adult and continuing education." The chapters of the book are based around the definitions of the emerging age and leadership. 1- Adult education from traditions in churches, military, and in corporations.2-New perspectives referred to as the "emerging age."3- Historical perspectives on leadership; myths; leadership.4-Writing personal philosophy in leadership. 5-Beliefs and values - philosophy in leadership.6-Characteristics for leaders in a transition period.7- Creating a common Vision/Mission statement.8-Gender differences in leadership.9-Changing times for teachers and learners.10-Personal learning plan using a journal and reflection.11-Making a transformation.12- Operating planning programs.As the author explains ways to create leadership in the emerging age, visions and structures which were outdated must now be expanded. Even though the author wrote this book in 1994, we are still in a transition into the emerging age. The author has proven throughout this book that program planning in adult education is a continuing process as we enter the emerging age. It is evident according to Apps that we can adapt to changes to ensure future success in our approach to planning. As a future program planner, I realize how important it is to create a vision and mission statement which remains constant into the emerging age. There are differing methods of creating a vision statement and philosophy for our educational setting. We added to and amended our philosophy to track the varying needs. We faced a challenge of creating a new philosophy to fit all of the participants needs. What are the essentials for participants in a program planning model? One of the principals stated by Apps is how important flexibility is when offering a distance course. Participants want courses offered at a distan

Planning and Leadership

Leadership for the Emerging Age is an excellent book about educational leadership and leaders. Each chapter discusses different aspects or ideas about leadership. The chapters build on each other as the reader walks through the steps to find the leader in themselves. Traditional ideas about leadership are discussed in relation to how these ideas have changed. Change appears to be the constant force in this book. It is interesting that Apps points out one of the aspects of a good leader know oneself to be able to handle change. The one constant is the leader among all the change. I found this book to succeed in the author's intentions. The layout of the book makes logical sense. It takes the reader from the beginning of the development stage to the transformation and application of new leadership abilities. It is easy to read. The language used by the author is easily understood and excellent examples are provided to give the reader an even clearer understanding. Apps make leadership and the development of these qualities easy to understand for those with an education background and those without.