Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership: ASHE Higher Education Report

Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership: ASHE Higher Education Report
ISBN-10
1118216555
ISBN-13
9781118216552
Category
Education
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2011-10-19
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Adrianna Kezar, Rozana Carducci, Melissa Contreras-McGavin

Description

In these times of change and challenge in higher education, pleas for leadership have become frequent. However, the type of leadership required within this new context (of globalization, demographic changes, technological advancement, and questioning of social authority) may call for different skills, requiring a re-education among campus stakeholders if they want to be successful leaders. In the past twenty years, there has been a revolution in the way that leadership is conceptualized across most fields and disciplines. Leadership has moved away from being leader-centered, individualistic, hierarchical, focused on universal characteristics, and emphasizing power over followers. Instead, a new vision has emerged: leadership that is process-centered, collective, context-bound, non-hierarchical, and focused on mutual power and influence processes. This volume summarizes research and literature about new conceptualizations of leadership to inform practice. This is volume 31, number 6, of the ASHE Higher Education Report, a bi-monthly journal published by Jossey-Bass. See our entire list of ASHE Higher Education Report titles for a wide variety of critical issues facing Higher Education today.

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