Designing and Defining a Model for Students Leadership Development

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Fereshteh Allipour ¹ , Parivash Jafari ² , نادرقلی قورچیان ³ , Najmeh Hajipour Abyie ⁴

1 - Department of educational administration , faculty of management and economics, Islamic Azad university , science and research branch
2 - Department of educational administration , faculty of management and economics, Islamic Azad university , science and research branch
3 - Department of educational administration , faculty of management and economics, Islamic Azad university , science and research branch
4 - educational sciences department , faculty of humanities , islamic azad university , kerman

Received: 2024-01-23 Accepted : 2025-01-06 Published : 2025-01-12

Keywords: students leadership development, education system, meta-synthesis approach.,

Abstract :

Purpose: The education system of countries has a central role in the development and enrichment of human capital, and the result of effective strategies for guiding and developing students can lead to extensive changes. Student leadership development is a process that promotes the development of students and helps their talents flourish. This research was conducted with the aim of providing a leadership development model for students using a Meta-synthesis approach.

Method: In this research, using the Meta-synthesis method and careful review of the subject, the findings of related researches were combined to design the model. Based on this, 342 researches in the field of leadership development, related keywords were queried, and 32 researches were selected. By analyzing their content, relevant categories and codes were extracted, and the importance and priority of each was determined using Shannon's entropy technique.

Findings: Based on the research approach, 3 categories, 20 concepts and 64 codes were extracted. Adaptability, growth and cultural intelligence in the infrastructure section, persuasiveness, culture of participation and networking in the requirements and cognitive complexity section, challenges of culture building and lack of expertise in the barriers section obtained the highest weights. Environmental factors, cognitive complexity and adaptability among all concepts were assigned the highest weights.

Conclusion: In this research, the leadership development model of students was presented in the form of three sections: infrastructure, requirements and obstacles. Since a comprehensive model for student leadership development has not been presented so far, this research can be beneficial in the direction of developing leadership characteristics in students and culturizing this phenomenon in the country's educational system.

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