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Empowerment and Impact Fellowship Practicum
EDU A337

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Description

This course is intended for students already enrolled in HGSE’s Empowerment and Impact Fellowship. The course offers a core experience for learning leadership skills in relation to issues involving justice and power. Participants will engage in a rigorous process of analyzing their own and other people’s approaches to mobilizing collective action within and beyond limiting social structures. Students should expect to engage in an in-depth exploration of their own past and present forms of practice. While there is limited emphasis on theoretical readings, there will be a strong focus on clarifying one’s underlying theories, assumptions, and attitudes toward the issue of equity and the practice of leadership. The Fellows are expected to take an active role in engaging the larger Harvard community in conversations that are by no means easy to lead. As such, they must be ready, within the protected structures of this practicum, to understand their own relationship to difficult discussions and the creation of brave communities. The taking of an active role within and beyond the institution will be a major component of the course work. In this process, participants will receive a great deal of mentorship and support, and they will have the chance to experience a wide variety of models and modes of facilitation.
Permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited to students In HGSE's Empowerment and Impact Fellowship.

School Graduate School of Education
Credits 4
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Department Education
Course Component Regular Course
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Letter Graded
Learning Goals The course teaches the practices of Adaptive Leadership, Critical Pedagogy, Non-reformist Reform, Immunity to Change, Creative Politics, and Emergence of the New, among other frameworks. Participants will learn to analyze systems, groups, and individual attitudes and devise interventions that engage the widest possible set of stakeholders in the process of creating change. 
Career Focus <p>The course is meant for students who intend to practice leadership at any level and in any area of education, politics, and community organization. Regardless of future career goals, the learning in this course can be helpful for those who view leadership as the act of mobilizing people to overcome oppressive social structures. We will also actively create and become a part of the larger network of EIF and its supporters at Harvard and across the world.</p>