Abstract
Journal of Research on Leadership Education (JRLE) is pleased to introduce a new feature to the journal. Pedagogy and practice is designed as a venue for submissions that provide original and authentic links between pedagogy and practice that are likely to be of interest to readers who teach in leadership preparation programs. We invite authors to submit manuscripts that address (a) how a teaching/learning activity might be structured within the classroom and/or (b) documentation of utility including discussion of student learning outcomes that were achieved by participation in a particular activity.
It is our hope that pedagogy and practice serves our readership by offering a forum to share experience and reflection on evolving, new, and innovative ways for teaching and preparing students for leadership. We kickoff this new venture with a article by Scott McLeod that focuses on technology integration and use in schools. McLeod describes how leadership preparation classes might incorporate the use of a technology classroom observation tool to foster increased technology leadership skills. By posing the question “Technology for the purpose of what?” McLeod unpacks how school leaders can be helped to understand the ways in which technology can become a high quality instructional tool in schools and how leadership preparation programs can facilitate the success of technology-rich learning environments.