Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Academic Leadership in Higher Education

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.>

About the author

Feng Su is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Margaret Wood is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Feng Su, Feng (Liverpool Hope University Su, Margaret Wood
• Assisted by: Camilla Erskine (Editor), Jon Nixon (Editor), Feng Su (Editor), Feng (Liverpool Hope University Su (Editor), Margaret Wood (Editor), Margaret (York St John University Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781350080904
• ISBN: 978-1-350-08090-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Perspectives on Leadership in; Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education; Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education; Perspectives on Leadership in
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system