Full Description
Presenting leadership of educational change in higher education as a dynamic, collaborative, and evolving area, Delivering Educational Change in Higher Education provides rich examples of how new ways of working are being adopted and adapted. It brings together leaders and practitioners, as authors and readers, to share their experiences of whole organisational change.
Across the chapters, common threads highlight the importance of organisational context, of shared or distributed leadership, and the critical need for continuous learning in and on action by reflective readers. Linking case studies to a range of practical models and theories, this book:
Explores established paradigms and models of change management and leadership.
Offers examples from a diverse range of institutional contexts.
Models critical reflective practice in the leadership of educational change.
Addresses the future of educational developers working collaboratively with an increasingly diverse higher education workforce.
Providing rare insights into 'the what' and 'the how' of change management and leadership, this book will be of interest to senior managers, educators, programme leaders, and educational developers who are all working in collaborative ways to enact positive change for student learning and experience.
Contents
List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Current Context of Leading Educational Change in Higher Education; 1 A tailored undertaking: the challenge of context and culture for developing transformational leadership and change agency; 2 Leading change: what went right and what went wrong; 3 Overcoming 'change without change' - co-creation, creativity and sustainable change; 4 Fostering open educational practices: communities or networks?; Part II Developing People and Leaders for a Changing Educational Context; 5 Leading a step-change in scholarship in college higher education; 6 Wholescale transformational change at pace: Abertay University's approach to developing academic leadership; 7 Leading global teacher development in higher education; 8 The distributed educational development team: a case study; 9 Leading educational transformation with sessional staff; 10 The practice and politics of programme leadership: between strategy and teaching; Part III Whole Institutional Change: Leaders in Action; 11 Myths and legends: changing assessment procedures and practices; 12 CIRCLE: a cyclical approach to stakeholder engagement for change management; 13 Architectural blueprint or work of art? Learning lessons from emergent change and the function of dialogic leadership; 14 Reframing educational enhancement at University College London; 15 The Global Perspectives Project: Building shared leadership through curriculum design; Conclusion; 16 The reflective educational change leader: concluding remarks on a journey into delivering educational change; Index
