Student Leadership In Education

Student leadership is much more complicated to define than one might think. Leadership is defined as the act or instance of leading, and a student is defined a person that attends any form of school or a person who is studying a subject. Therefore, student leadership is defined as any student who is leading among their peers. While this is the definition, some people falsely use the term or interpret it in ways that lead the group being lead in the wrong direction.
With there being many ideas and different styles of leadership, people often use definitions from derivatives of the term that can lead many astray. For instance, many mix up the term, student leadership, for the term, student leader. The difference is a leader is a person who may or may not have been given a role or title. While the two …show more content…
At first, it does not seem controversial at all, but with student leadership being a foundation of many organizations and groups, it can stir up trouble when falsely interpreted.
When student leadership is interpreted as student leaders, it essentially creates a wall of dictatorship between leaders given a formal title and their peers, without a formal title. This can diminish the effectiveness of the leadership in place. The problem lies where ones given no title, feel they have no right to speak, therefore creating two events. One being the friction between a formal leader and his peer when the peer tries to lead in any form. The other being the leader now having no help and having to tackle a much larger job leading to inefficiency. When student leadership and student leader are interpreted as defined, it will result in there being a multitude of informal leaders. The goal of student leadership is to allow the students to take part in