Narratives of Academics' Personal Journeys in Contested Spaces : Leadership Identity in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

"Narratives of Academics' Personal Journeys in Contested Spaces provides theoretically-informed personal narratives of 11 emerging and established leaders in learning and teaching in Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and the USA. The academics' narratives focus on how the individuals have navigated to their current leadership role in learning and teaching whilst negotiating contested identities, such as gender, and physical and social marginalised spaces, such as interstitial (middle) leadership positions. These international narratives provide unique perspectives on the sense-making of academics as they reflect on their learning and teaching leadership journey and how these journeys are shaped by their contested identities and the marginalised spaces they inhabit. Often such identities and spaces are not recognised in higher education which may lead to even more isolating and challenging leadership journeys. The book contributes to our understanding of the subjective experiences that academics encounter in their leadership journeys. Further, the personal narratives included in the book capture how the contested identities and marginalised spaces influence the learning and teaching leadership practices in various educational, cultural and national contexts."-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Figures Tables Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction to Leadership in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education within Contested Spaces Part One Navigating Leadership in Marginalized Spaces 1 Growing into Antiracist Leadership in the American Context (Laurie L. Grupp) 2 Establishing Leadership Integrity in Learning and Teaching as a Professor (Susannah Quinsee) 3 Developing Higher Education Pedagogy as a Pioneer (Mari Murtonen) 4 A Leadership Journey in Change and Uncertainty (Jeni Fountain) 5 Participative Leadership as an Early Career Academic (Andrew Kelly) 6 Clarifying the Fuzzy Lines of Programme Leadership (Patrick Baughan) Part Two Engaging Values, Resilience and Serendipity in Leadership 7 Towards a Community for Teaching Excellence at a Research-Intensive University (Stephanie Laggini Fiore) 8 The Need for Time and Space for Leadership Development in Learning and Teaching (Hannah-Louise Holmes) 9 An Accidental Journey towards Educational Leadership (Leopold Bayerlein) 10 Valuing Collaboration in the Leadership of Learning and Teaching (Sandra Jones) 11 Our Journeys through the Scholarship of Leading: What Matters and What Counts? (Wu Siew Mei and Chng Huang Hoon) Part Three The Future of Learning and Teaching Leadership 12 Towards an Ecological Perspective: Reflections on Leadership Journeys (Ian M. Kinchin) Index