Activity 2.1 | Examining and Identifying Social Location

Revisiting and Expanding Your Understanding of Social Location

In this final reflective activity, you will revisit your initial reflections to explore how your understanding of social location has grown and shifted after engaging with the provided resources.

Revist and re-read all the answers and artifacts you provided by answering these reflective questions:

1. Do you want to add or reconsider anything from your previous answers?
2. Did your initial responses surprise you? Why or why not?
3. How do you now see your social location affecting and influencing your dispositions and practices as a leader in ECE? In what specific ways?
4. What aspects of your leadership style would you like to rethink based on your new understanding of social location? Why or why not?

Take time to answer these questions thoughtfully, considering the impact of your social location on how you lead and interact with others. 

This reflection will support you in integrating these insights into your continuous growth as an inclusive and relational leader in ECE. Be sure to save and revisit your reflections as a valuable reference, helping you deepen your understanding and build on this learning throughout your leadership journey.

Now that you have taken time to reflect on Social Location and how it continuously affects your standpoints (how you see, move, react, and respond in and to the world), you will move into activity 2.2, where examples of Leadership Models will be helpful to bring more specific breadth, depth, and inspiration to your personal, contextualized leadership model.