Narratives of Becoming Leaders in Disciplinary and Institutional Contexts provides theoretically informed personal narratives of nine emerging and established leaders in learning and teaching in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and the USA. The academics’ narratives consider how individuals navigate the disciplinary and institutional context as emergent and established leaders in learning and teaching.
These learning and teaching leadership narratives highlight the commonalities and differences in the struggles that academic leaders across the world encounter within their unique institutional and disciplinary contexts. The journeys of learning and teaching leadership are often fuzzy owing to lack of well-established structures and pathways which may be further complicated by the unique institutional and disciplinary contexts. This book contributes to our understanding of the impact of disciplinary and institutional contexts on the practice of learning and teaching leaders. It captures the subjective experiences of academics at various stages in their career, navigating their individual pathways of learning and teaching leadership within their national context.
Foreword, Jill Jameson (Greenwich University, UK) Acknowledgements Introduction: Learning and Teaching Leadership Journeys in Institutional and Disciplinary Contexts, Anesa Hosein (University of Surrey, UK) and Namrata Rao (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Part I: Becoming Institutional Leaders 1. Social Capital and Social Networks as Leadership Transition From a Disciplinary to Institutional Context, Courtney DeMayo Pungo (Heidelberg University, USA) 2. A Journey from Scholarship to Leadership: The Education of an Educator, Patrick B. O’Sullivan (California Polytechnic State University, USA) 3. The Changing Perspectives of an Academic Leader: Looking From Outside to the Inside and From Inside to the Outside, Celia Popovic (York University, Canada) 4. Examining a Leadership Journey through a Lens of ‘Integrated Scholarship’, Mike McLinden (University of Birmingham, UK) Part II: Becoming Leaders in the Discipline 5. Finding the Space for Disciplinary Leadership in Biological Sciences, Amalia Hosein (University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago) 6. Developing a Learning and Teaching Leadership Profile in a Specialist Arts Institution, Louise H. Jackson (Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, UK) 7. Finding a Path to Leadership in Science by Choosing to be Different: The Road not Taken, Susan Rowland (The University of Queensland, Australia) 8. Building a Bridge from Chemistry to Educational Leadership: Overcoming the Valley Between the Two Cultures, Paulo Rogério Miranda Correia (University of São Paulo, Brazil) 9. Education and Leadership in Physics: Making Every Step of my Journey Count, Alison Voice (University of Leeds, UK) Part III: The Future of Learning and Teaching Leadership 10. Reflections on Disciplinary and Institutional Leadership: Crossing the Abyss, Ian M. Kinchin (University of Surrey, UK) Index
Anesa Hosein is Associate Professor in Higher Education at the University of Surrey, UK. Namrata Rao is Principal Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Ian M. Kinchin is Professor in Higher Education at the University of Surrey, UK.
Reviews for Narratives of Becoming Leaders in Disciplinary and Institutional Contexts: Leadership Identity in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
While this important volume captures a plurality of voices, a variety of contexts and a diversity of experiences, it is fascinating to detect and distil some important points of intersection in the narratives. Three that stand out are that leadership is always a journey, never a destination; it flourishes through social influence, seldom remote direction; and it is fundamentally about relationship, not power or prestige. More than just a collection of hard-earned wisdom and insight, this book is also a compelling read. * Doug Parkin, Principal Adviser for Leadership and Management, Advance HE, and independent author on higher education, UK *
