(F) My Research Paper Proposal

Some people are naturally very/not very good at leading others. These days, lectures about improving one's leadership skills are getting popular, but Shackleton for example did lead others in an effective way without learning how to do it from such lecturers. In addition, there are some beliefs related to one's leadership, for instance, the first-born child is better at leading others than the youngest child. Although these beliefs are debatable, these suggest the possibility that a certain characteristics made in childhood experience or environment could affect leadership potential in adulthood. This paper will explore the effect of early childhood experience on one's leadership skills. (←purpose of the paper) It appears that some characteristics which have important roles in demonstrating leadership are raised before becoming an adult. (←thesis) Rodd(1994) examined "the personal and professional characteristics of leaders in general and in early childhood in particular, discussing the skills associated with effective leadership in practice" in his book "Leadership in Early Childhood: The Pathway to Professionalism" according to its abstract. Also, Nivala and Hujala (2002) published an article named "Leadership in Early Childhood Education: Cross Cultural Perspective". These sources seem to support the thesis of my research paper.

In fact, I firstly thought that I would research whether the leadership skills are learned or innate, but I soon noticed that there were (at least) 2 different types of "learning": conscious learning and unconscious (or semi-unconscious) learning. Although people sometimes say like "she is reticent by nature", such a characteristic is often learnt unconsciously/semi-unconsciously when she was very little, and it's not gained by complete nature in many cases. At this point, I found that it's very difficult for me to divide "nature" and "nurture" in a clear way, especially when I talk about one's characteristics.

Thus, I decided to write a research paper about the relationship between unconscious or semi-unconscious learning in early childhood experience/environment and leadership skills demonstrated in adulthood! But, as this proposal is working, I may change my thesis a bit (maybe I need to narrow the thesis more...?)