Implementing leadership skills in students through art

Abstract

The research explores the perceptions of students at various educational stages andtheir teachers regarding the effectiveness of a disruptive didactic innovation to imple-ment communication and leadership skills through an art-based experience. A teach-ing experiment applied to 30 students from different educational levels was chosenas methodology, with a convergent mixed methods design of exploratory anddescriptive nature, including a final integration phase to compare the results betweenthe methodological streams. Specifically, a discourse analysis and a Likert scale surveywere used. The results demonstrate the positive impact of the didactic innovation onthe development of specific skills in Secondary education, High school and universitystudents. All students have successfully implemented leadership, critical thinking,learning, creativity, resilience, and problem-solving skills. The study concludes that anexperiential communication with art serves as a powerful tool to promote cross-cut-ting skills in a diverse educational setting, and that the experience is positively valuedby both students and their teachers.