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List of contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Disrupting Leadership in Higher Education
Part I: Disrupting Universities
2. Re-framing Leadership in Higher Education
3. Agile yet Fragile: The Vulnerability of Australian Universities
Part II: Disruptive Leadership
4. The Leaderist Turn and Contested Logics in Higher Education
5. Leadership Storying, Change Management and Academic ‘Line Dancing’
6. The Professoriate: An Interesting Beast or Leadership in Crisis?
7. Academic Discontent, Discontent, Disenchantment, Disengagement and Distrust: A Case of Destructive Leadership
Part III: Leadership Disruptors
8. Diversifying to Disrupt Leadership
9. Careless Management, the Vulnerable University and Critical Leadership
References
Index
About the author
Jill Blackmore AM is Alfred Deakin Professor and Professor of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia.
Summary
What is the future of the contemporary university and for those who lead them?
Considering leadership in the broadest sense, including academic leadership (teaching and research) as well as leadership practices of those in formal management positions, Jill Blackmore outlines how multiple pressures on universities have produced leadership practices in management and research which are more corporate than collegial, and which discourage many academics from aspiring to leadership. She uses a range of theoretical tools, informed by critical and feminist organisational studies, to unpack higher education and how it is being transformed in ways that undermine its core work of teaching and research. Drawing from three Australian university case studies, this book uses leadership as a lens through which to investigate the effects of restructuring of the higher education sector which have impacted differently on academic identities and careers.
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Authored by Professor Jill Blackmore, this book is timely and highly relevant when higher education management and governance has been experiencing disruption after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume offers insights highly relevant for government officials, higher education leaders, academics and researchers who are interceded in higher education governance issues. Professor Blackmore has successfully put together a volume with critical reflections not only on theories but also offered particularly useful practical value in enhancing university management in managing crisis-driven contexts. This volume is a good guide for higher education leaders / managers when preparing for / managing cries against the highly politicalized socio-economic and geo-political environments.
