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Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Academic Leadership in Higher Education
Contributor(s): Su, Feng (Editor), Wood, Margaret (Editor), Nixon, Jon (Editor)
ISBN: 135008090X     ISBN-13: 9781350080904
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $47.47  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Higher
Dewey: 378
Series: Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.7 lbs) 240 pages
 
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This book explores what academic leadership in higher education might mean in the cosmopolitan and increasingly globalised 21st century through individual academics' narrative accounts drawn from a range of international contexts. The book shows that academic leadership is key to an individual's development and that it could mean different things in different settings as academics operate across the levels of professional practice, institutional organisation, sector-wide systems and international networks. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitan perspectives on academic leadership which are developed from the particularities of local and everyday situated experience.
Part I of the book explores key theoretical perspectives; Part II provides first-hand accounts from the contributors of their own development as academic leaders; and Part III discusses some of the implications for those with responsibility for academic development and for all those concerned with developing the qualities necessary for leadership practices.


Contributor Bio(s): Su, Feng: - Feng Su is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, UK.Wood, Margaret: - Margaret Wood is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK.Nixon, Jon: - Jon Nixon is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. He also lectures at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and holds an honorary chair at the University of Sheffield, UK.