On teaching leadership intervention science in action theoretical background and design of a lecture on leadership
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This paper describes theoretical concepts of leadership with a focus on emotions within organizations. According to the ‘Jonah’ sequence in the movie “Master and Commander” (Weir, Master and Commander. The far side of the world. Twentieth Century Fox. DVD, 2003), leadership is interpreted by using psychodynamic concepts. This paper argues that the movie sequence serves as a starting point for teaching leadership by discussing students’ viewpoints, including their affective reaction to the sequence, accompanied by the lecturers’ psychodynamic interpretation. Furthermore, this paper uses a didactic concept, developed from the field of intervention science, to teach leadership to students by using actual emotions from within the student group. Therefore, the ‘Jonah’ movie sequence is used as the nucleus of the process, allowing the instructor to start at the dissociated (transcendent) position of ‘someone else there and then.’ During the teaching process, the lecturer facilitates exploration of the associated (immanent) position of ‘me (individual student)/the group (of students) here and now’. The teaching is designed as a ‘journey into immanent reflection of leadership,’ facilitated by the lecturer. The increased ability to spot, discuss and reflect emotions within the context of organizations is the outcome of this ‘learning by experience’.
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