Lyndon Darko

Student Leadership Development - a Case Study: One School's Student Leadership Program and Its Effectiveness in Embedding Serving Leadership into the School Culture Lyndon Darko

In 1977, Robert Greenleaf wrote ?Many teachers?have sufficient latitude in dealing with students that they could, on their own, help nurture the servant leader potential, which I believe, is latent to some degree in almost every young person. Could not many respected teachers speak those few words that might change the course of life, or give it new purpose?? Unfortunately the body of research examining servant leadership in educational organisations is scarce (Crippen, 2005) and it appears a near vacuum exists for information concerning student serving leadership in Australian schools. This case study, I hope, starts to reverse this trend and will hopefully bring awareness of the benefits of serving leadership to school communities so that we learn to serve each other.