This chapter presents the story of Meta, an egalitarian leader who is growing to understand her leadership style and the life forces that contribute to its development. These forces include, but are not limited to faith and theology (Hoare, 2000) the ethic of care (Noddings, 1992), transformative learning (Mezirow, 1997), and nature of science (NOS) (Lederman & Lederman, 2004; McComas, 1998). This ethnographic study of an individual revealed that ways of knowing and operating that once were intuitive have become deliberate. These forces are belief structures which guide Meta’s decisions as she makes career choices and are afforded/accepted multiple opportunities to lead.
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Van Sickle, M., Cudahy, D. (2009). Laying the Ladder Down: Egalitarian Leadership. In: Wieseman, K.C., Weinburgh, M.H. (eds) Women’s Experiences in Leadership in K-16 Science Education Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2239-4_12
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