What school could do to improve student value-based leadership?

The purpose of this research is to understand the impact of the school context compared to the Scouting context on the Leadership attitudes of adolescents. The study was conducted on a sample population, consisting of 600 students and 231 Scouts enrolled in upper secondary school in Rome (9th and 10th grades). The two instruments used in this research are the Educational Context Perception Questionnaire (ECPQ), for the analysis of the adolescents’ perception of their educational context, and the Socially Responsible Leadership Scale (SRLS) adapted to the Italian context, which measures the value-based leadership attitudes of the adolescents. The analyses support the hypothesis that the educational context has an impact on the value-based leadership development of the adolescents. In this article, the aspects explored are the students’ and Scouts’ perceptions of their educational context, their leadership attitudes and the impact of the ECPQ dimensions on their leadership values and capabilities.