Abstract
This article aims to provide insights gained from teaching a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development in the university setting. A teacher reflects upon the how her previous working experience influenced the teaching of the subject and the development of professionalism in the university setting. It is concluded that a teacher has to first understand and know oneself and this self-awareness benefits student learning.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Nurturing university students to be Tomorrow’s Leaders
- Review Articles
- Emotional competence: a key leadership competence for university students
- Cognitive competence: a key positive youth development construct for university students
- Clear and positive identity as an attribute of an effective leader
- Resilience as a focus of a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Developing self-leadership and responsibility and moving away from egocentrism
- Developing social competence in a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Spirituality as a key positive youth development construct for university students
- Nurturing moral competence in university students via a credit-bearing subject
- Reflective teaching in a holistic personal development course for Chinese university students: a case study
- A teacher’s reflection on teaching “Tomorrow’s Leaders” in university students in Hong Kong
- “Know thyself”: some personal reflections in teaching a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Levels of reflection on teaching a leadership and positive youth development subject
- Riding on a roller coaster: personal reflections of teaching a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Originial Article
- Subjective outcome evaluation of a university subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Nurturing university students to be Tomorrow’s Leaders
- Review Articles
- Emotional competence: a key leadership competence for university students
- Cognitive competence: a key positive youth development construct for university students
- Clear and positive identity as an attribute of an effective leader
- Resilience as a focus of a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Developing self-leadership and responsibility and moving away from egocentrism
- Developing social competence in a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Spirituality as a key positive youth development construct for university students
- Nurturing moral competence in university students via a credit-bearing subject
- Reflective teaching in a holistic personal development course for Chinese university students: a case study
- A teacher’s reflection on teaching “Tomorrow’s Leaders” in university students in Hong Kong
- “Know thyself”: some personal reflections in teaching a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Levels of reflection on teaching a leadership and positive youth development subject
- Riding on a roller coaster: personal reflections of teaching a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development
- Originial Article
- Subjective outcome evaluation of a university subject on leadership and intrapersonal development