Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times

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Professor Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia, Australia) Professor Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK)

Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times

Professor Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia, Australia), Professor Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK), Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
30 May 2024

Organisation & management of education; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Universities

Series: Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education

This book

draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to

offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher

education. The

chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about

intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical

questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark

everyday life and interactions. Rather than thinking about ‘freedom from

precarious times and precarity’ they consider ‘freedom from within’ and how

the sovereignty and autonomy of the individual to think and speak within the

public realm might be retained, if not reclaimed. In the precarious present

and in times of precarity, what has changed and why? What might now be the

new social reality within which we work?

Each

of the contributors have been invited to take up their own perspective on

what is precarious, and to examine the impacts on intellectual leadership.

What does it mean to do intellectual work and be an intellectual leader? What

are the implications for intellectual work and leadership if the academy

itself is in precarious times?

Edited by: Professor Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia Australia), Professor Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK), Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350291805
ISBN 10: 1350291803
Series: Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tanya Fitzgerald is Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Helen M. Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Jon Nixon was Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK.

Reviews for Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times

The book embraces with rigour and relish the task of critiquing the dominant political discourse surrounding universities and wider society. It urges leaders throughout the higher education ecosystem to examine their practices and to redress the iniquities of precarity in higher education. -- Paul Gentle, Academic Director, Invisible Grail, UK A refreshing new approach to intellectual leadership in higher education. Drawing on global examples, the authors grapple with the precarious contexts within which faculty, students, staff and administrators co-exist today. Readers are challenged to resist the notion that universities are in decline and to actively participate in reclaiming their purpose to produce knowledge for the common good. -- Margaret Grogan, Professor Emerita of Educational Leadership and Policy, Chapman University, USA This broad-ranging and thought-provoking book provides much food for thought that is empirical, theoretical and practical. Its strength is that it offers tools to think with rather than solutions. -- Rebecca Boden, Research Director of New Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland A hopeful path forward for intellectual leadership as a crucial element of a better and more socially just future. -- Mary Churchill, Associate Dean and Professor of the Practice, Boston University, USA