scholarly journals Effective leadership practices in language immersion programs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Language Immersion ◽  
Immersion Programs ◽  
Language Immersion Programs ◽  
Effective Leadership Practices

Embracing and Harnessing Uncertainty

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Camilla Ellehave ◽  
Erin Wilson Burns ◽  
Dave Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Customer Needs ◽  
Effective Leaders ◽  
The Future ◽  
Effective Leadership Practices ◽  
Reactions To Change ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter offers insight into how change and uncertainty challenges effective leadership practices and offers guidance on how leaders can successfully lead in uncertain times. It adds to the existing field of studies by offering leaders a framework and specific ways to understand and consequently embrace and harness uncertainty. With the turmoil of 2020 as backdrop, effective leaders will need to master 3 tasks: 1) to pace the changes to which their teams are exposed, 2) to shape how changes are perceived by their team, and 3) to manage the team's emotional reactions to change. As leaders envision the future, guide choices, tame apprehension, regulate expectations, experiment nimbly, and collaborate frequently, they will be able to channel the pressures of change to create positive outcomes for their teams and organizations. More importantly, organizations that create routines and processes that encourage, develop, and enable these behaviors internally will lead in a world where customer needs, employee demands, and shareholder expectations are continuously evolving.

scholarly journals Exploring Perceptions of Effective Leadership Practices of Presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Sydney Freeman Jr. ◽  
Robert Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Historically Black ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Historically Black Colleges ◽  
Effective Leadership Practices ◽  
Black Colleges And Universities

Anchored in the anti-deficit approach, this manuscript investigated perceptions of effective leadership practices of presidents at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This manuscript provides a unique contribution to the literature by utilizing a general qualitative research approach to learn from a diverse set of voices of leaders and scholars within this sector that serve in various roles (e.g., Deans, Vice Presidents, and scholars) or who study leadership at these institutions. The study found that effective leaders at HBCUs generally have success across two categories — experiential skills and professional knowledge. This study adds to the paucity of literature in this area by expanding and complicating our understanding of effective leadership practices of presidents at HBCUs.

scholarly journals Confronting the Demise of a Mother Tongue: The Feasibility of Implementing Language Immersion Programs to Reinvigorate the Taiwanese Language

2008 ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Johan Gijsen ◽  
Yu-chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Language Immersion ◽  
Language Loss ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Taiwanese Identity ◽  
Immersion Programs ◽  
Language Immersion Programs ◽  
The Right

Abstract In Taiwan, where Mandarin is the official language, the survival of Taiwanese, the mother tongue of sixty percent of the island’s inhabitants, is threatened. In this article, the authors discuss data from previous and ongoing research on the role of language and the significance of language loss in the quest for a “Taiwanese identity.” Research shows that the dominance of Mandarin over Taiwanese plus the growing support for English in Taiwan are likely indications that current Mandarin/Taiwanese bilingualism is being replaced by Mandarin/English bilingualism. Canadian, Finnish, Basque and Catalonian models of language immersion programs will be proposed as an alternative to Taiwan’s current language policy. The authors argue that such models, when applied to a significant degree in Taiwan’s primary education system, will contribute to strengthening Taiwanese identity, to defending the right of youngsters to receive their education in their Taiwanese mother tongue, and to creating more effective English language training.

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