The transformational leadership and the Swedish Armed Forces’ basic outlook on pedagogy are two factors that affect a Swedish military officer. The author has identified a need of understanding the process of personal development. An understanding that couldn’t be supplied by the transformational leadership but that was found in the Swedish Armed Forces’ basic outlook on pedagogy. This essay’s purpose is to analyze and describe how the roles of the leader and the teacher are portrayed in the Swedish Armed Forces’ basic outlook on pedagogy and the transformational leadership. The essay’s aim is also to evaluate what value the Swedish Armed Forces’ basic outlook on pedagogy can add to the transformational leadership. Important conclusions in the essay are that the understanding of the collective’s influence on its members and surroundings could possibly be used as a means to spread the transformational leader’s visions and goals. Both in the form of intentions and in the form of a critical approach to knowledge in order to stimulate the individual development. This also helps to capture moments where learning can be achieved even when the leader isn’t present. As an added bonus the Swedish Armed Forces’ basic outlook on pedagogy offer a wider insight in the individual’s needs to grow but also how the proper conditions for development are created.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:fhs-761 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Elerud-Tryde, Eric |
| Publisher | Försvarshögskolan |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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