Enhancing "Leader Development" through Service Learning and Building Service-Learning Programs'Capacity for Leadership: The Intercultural Leadership Program at Poole Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan

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In the last twenty years many practitioners of service learning have recognized that this experience-based pedagogy offers a unique opportunity to develop leadership skills. Stanton, in particular, has argued that service learning can be a catalyst for the development of skills such as "judgment in action" and the effective enabling of others. In this paper we describe theevolution of our service-learning leadership program and its lessons both for service learning and leadership education. Drawing on the concepts of institutional"leadership development" and individual"leader development"from the Center for Creative Leadership, we argue that these leadership programs not only enhance individual student's leadership skills, but also build and strengthen the leadership capacity for the entire service learning organization.