Unto Perfect Manhood: An Instrumental Case Study of Leadership Formation in an African American Boys High School

<p>This qualitative study investigates the influence of single-sex education on leadership formation at an all boys, urban Catholic high school where a majority of the students come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The researcher has found an association between graduation from a single-sex school and leadership attainment. In order to understand what it is about a single-sex education that might nurture leadership development the author completed an instrumental case study of the school seeking to identify those elements that might nurture leadership formation.</p><p>The theoretical framework for this study is based on the research of Wolf-Wendel (1998) who relies on institutional characteristics as one means to explain students' post baccalaureate success, Bandura (1997) who identified the influence of role models on</p><p>self-efficacy behavior, and Greenleaf (1977) who contends that the most effective leaders are servant-leaders.</p><p>The author identified six environmental or institutional factors that encouraged or nurtured leadership development. They were the number of positive male role models, the values taught and modeled, the high expectations and strong academic environment,</p><p>the single-sex environment, the small school/family environment and the all African American environment.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Education

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• MacKinney, Daniel Ivan

• case study
• leadership development
• minority education
• role models
• single-gender education
• single-sex education
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/49

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.luc.edu:luc_diss-1048