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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

Leadership Metaphors: Developing Innovative Teaching Strategies

Author(s): R. Wilburn Clouse, Terry Goodin, Joseph Aniello, Noel McDowell, Darlene McDowell

Citation: R. Wilburn Clouse, Terry Goodin, Joseph Aniello, Noel McDowell, Darlene McDowell, (2013) "Leadership Metaphors: Developing Innovative Teaching Strategies," American Journal of Management, Vol. 13, Iss. 1, pp. 79 - 92

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

Research conducted over the last half century has revealed that optimal learning takes place in the brain

when both the left-brain and the right brain work in balance. Educators can intentionally arouse the

activation of one hemisphere of the brain over the other through the use of right brain strategies in

language learning. These strategies, including analogy, metaphor, synthesis, and imagery connect the

two separate thought processes of the brain, linking the sequential analytical knowledge of the left brain

with the conceptual patterns and images of the right brain. In 1997 Clouse and colleagues developed a

teaching strategy called “Whole-Part- Whole,” where the learning is tied directly with the framework of

the learner. Through “just in time teaching,” the student learns the parts of a opened-ended case. The

recursive design allows students to recreate a new “whole,” which becomes new applied knowledge. The

whole-brain theory and the Whole-Part-Whole strategy of learning were used as the basis for an

assignment at Vanderbilt University in which graduate students were asked to write a paper using

metaphors to describe leadership skills of a leader that they knew. Students were required to tie the

metaphor to leadership theory. Students were very creative in the development of metaphors to describe

leaders that they enjoyed and admired.