Full Description
Navigating Complexities in Leadership: Moving Towards Critical Hope emerged in response to the confluence of complexities experienced by leadership educators and practitioners amidst global pandemics. It is a guide for those seeking to learn through critical perspectives, and seek more agile, responsive tools for navigating complexity, change, and disruption. The audience for the book ranges from new and entry-level leadership educators to senior scholars in higher education.
This book frames leadership learning and development as a process of adaptive action in complex systems. It brings to light patterns of complexity in current times through the lens of educators and practitioners in higher education. Readers are invited to actively engage with the text from an inquiry stance. Through curiosity, shared exploration, self-reflection we hope readers will discover patterns and insight that resonate and challenge their own experiences, find energy to engage the complexities being faced, and build adaptive capacity to live, work, teach, and lead in critical hope and possibility. The book concludes with questions and considerations that allow educators and practitioners to reflect on their own roles and contexts and move towards critical hope in navigating the complexities we will continue to face.
Contents
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1. Parting the Clouds: Navigating Complexity in Leadership; Kerry L. Priest and Kathy L. Guthrie.
Part I. Expanding Dynamic Leadership Frames.
Chapter 2. Raising Consciousness in Paradigm Interplay in Leadership; Chelsea D. Shore.
Chapter 3. Tensions in Sustainability Leadership; Rian Satterwhite, Katherine Sheridan, and Whitney McIntyre Miller.
Chapter 4. Preparing Leadership Activity at the Intersection of Life and Politics; Brandon W. Kliewer.
Chapter 5. Reflections on Bad Leadership in Complex Times; O'Juan Edwards.
Chapter 6. Expanding the Scope of Scholarship in Leadership Education; Martinella Dryburgh, Elizabeth Goryunova, Carol Clyde Gallagher, Trent Grundmeyer, and Cristina de Mello e Souza Wildermuth.
Part II. Leadership Practice In Higher Education.
Chapter 7. Emergent Strategy: A Tool for Transforming Leadership in Higher Education; Ciera Fluker.
Chapter 8. Power of the People: Higher Education and Followership in the Time of Mass Media; Cassandra R. Kepple.
Chapter 9. Emerging Engagement and Leadership During Complex Times; Marissa Mainwood.
Chapter 10. Making the World Your Classroom: Observation as a Pedagogical Tool for Leadership Learning; Brittany Devies.
Part III. Higher Education As A Partner In Leadership Practice.
Chapter 11. Considerations for Community Engagement in Complex Times; Julie B. LeBlanc.
Chapter 12. Agriculture and Rural Communities: Leadership Learning and Implications for Higher Education; Susan Metzger and Russell Plaschka.
Chapter 13. Integrating Leadership Frameworks to Diagnose and Address the Challenge of Health Equity; Mac T. Benavides, Saya Kakim, and Jurdene Coleman.
Part IV. Identity.
Chapter 14. From #BlackLivesMatter to Critical Hope: Reflecting on Socially Just Leadership in Higher Education; Jesse R. Ford and Brandy S. Propst.
Chapter 15. Unpacking the Influence of Leadership Tax on Black Women; Brittany Brewster.
Chapter 16. The Risks of Being a Student Athlete Leader in the Midst of Social Unrest; Sherrina S. Lofton.
Chapter 17. Cultivating a Systems Mindset Through Feminist Leadership; Brittany Devies and Julie E. Owen.
Chapter 18. Critical Approaches to Gender Equity in Leadership Development and Practice; R. J. Youngblood, Tess Hobson, and Roberta Maldonado Franzen.
Part V. Global Context.
Chapter 19. Leading With a Global Mindset; Yang Li.
Chapter 20. International Student Leadership Development: Honoring Cultural Identities to Create Inclusive Environments; Pei Hu.
Chapter 21. Grassroots Movements in Senegal to Grow Critical Hope: Lessons for Higher Education; Trisha Gott, Mary Tolar, Salif Kanoute, and Seydi Ndiaye.
Chapter 22. #EndSars: Illuminating Leadership Within a Leaderless Movement; Onyedikachi Ekwerike.
Chapter 23. Seeing the Sunlight: Critical Hope for the Future; Kathy L. Guthrie and Kerry L. Priest.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
