Full Description
Narratives of Academics' Personal Journeys in Contested Spaces provides theoretically-informed personal narratives of 11 emerging and established leaders in learning and teaching in Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and the USA. The academics' narratives focus on how the individuals have navigated to their current leadership role in learning and teaching whilst negotiating contested identities, such as gender, and physical and social marginalised spaces, such as interstitial (middle) leadership positions.
These international narratives provide unique perspectives on the sense-making of academics as they reflect on their learning and teaching leadership journey and how these journeys are shaped by their contested identities and the marginalised spaces they inhabit. Often such identities and spaces are not recognised in higher education which may lead to even more isolating and challenging leadership journeys. The book contributes to our understanding of the subjective experiences that academics encounter in their leadership journeys. Further, the personal narratives included in the book capture how the contested identities and marginalised spaces influence the learning and teaching leadership practices in various educational, cultural and national contexts.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Foreword, Tansy Jessop (University of Bristol, UK)
Introduction to Leadership in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education within Contested Spaces, Namrata Rao (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Anesa Hosein (University of Surrey, UK)
Part I: Navigating Leadership in Marginalised Spaces
1. Growing into Antiracist Leadership in the American Context, Laurie L. Grupp (Fairfield University, USA)
2. Establishing Leadership Integrity in Learning and Teaching as a Professor, Susannah Quinsee (City, University of London, UK)
3. Developing Higher Education Pedagogy as a Pioneer, Mari Murtonen (University of Turku, Finland)
4. A Leadership Journey in Change and Uncertainty, Jeni Fountain (Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand)
5. Participative Leadership as an Early Career Academic, Andrew Kelly (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
6. Clarifying the Fuzzy Lines of Programme Leadership, Patrick Baughan (Advance HE, UK)
Part II: Engaging Values, Resilience and Serendipity in Leadership
7. Towards a Community for Teaching Excellence at a Research-Intensive University, Stephanie Laggini Fiore (Temple University, USA)
8. The Need for Time and Space for Leadership Development in Learning and Teaching, Hannah Holmes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
9. An Accidental Journey Towards Educational Leadership, Leopold Bayerlein (University of New England, Australia)
10. Valuing Collaboration in the Leadership of Learning and Teaching, Sandra Jones (RMIT, Australia)
11. Our Journeys Through the Scholarship of Leading: What Matters and What Counts?, Wu Siew Mei and Chng Huang Hoon (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Part III: The Future of Learning and Teaching Leadership
12. Towards an Ecological Perspective: Reflections on Leadership Journeys, Ian M. Kinchin (University of Surrey, UK)
References
Index
