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الإصدار الحادي والعشرون: 06 مارس 2024
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Navigating Leadership: Examining the Impact of Leadership Roles in School-based Educational Clubs on Students’ Development and Academic Performance

Nadir El Morabit
الملخص

This study explores the effects of leadership roles in educational clubs on students’ personal and academic growth. It involved 15 public high school students in Tetouan, Morocco who participated in extracurricular school activities. E-questionnaires and observations were used to gather primary data on their views of their club experiences. Research findings suggest that students who hold leadership roles in their educational clubs improve in self-confidence, collaboration, problem-solving, and effective communication. Leadership roles, across the various clubs, impact student-student relationships, the climate of the club, promote personal growth, and enhance academic performance. These soft skills are transferable and conducive to many aspects of academic life. It is essential to note the clubs’ supervisors’ accounts of students, who demonstrate educational clubs' positive effects on students' emotional intelligence, cognitive abilities, self-confidence, and social skills. This research suggests a confluence of the relationship between leadership and educational clubs. The findings suggest that schools could enhance students' leadership capacities, cultivate their total growth, and optimize their school connectedness with leadership development programs tailored to these clubs. The integration of such programs into school life will not only encourage and prepare students to assume roles of leadership in the future, as researchers argue, but may also prove much more effective in equipping them for life with the skills and qualities required for success in a world increasingly oriented toward knowledge, expertise, and constant innovation.

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