Can (Post-Heroic) Leadership Be Taught (Online)? A Library Educator’s Expansion of Baldwin, Ching, and Friesen’s Grounded Theory Model of Online Course Design and Development

Many Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) programs are now offered online, and most of these programs offer courses on leadership and management principles. Teaching leadership in any context presents challenges because leadership is a hazy and confounding concept. The intrinsic problems in teaching leadership are compounded by the professional context of libraries; librarianship is a feminized profession whereas being a leader is...