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Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education - Renewing the role of the university professor (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,160
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Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education - Renewing the role of the university professor (Paperback, New)

Bruce Macfarlane

Series: Research into Higher Education

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What is intellectual leadership and how might this concept be better understood in the modern university? Drawing on research into the role of full or chair professors, this book argues that it is important to define and reclaim intellectual leadership as a counter-weight to the prevailing managerial culture of higher education. It contends that professors have been converted into narrowly defined knowledge entrepreneurs and often feel excluded or marginalised as leaders by their own universities. To fulfil their role professors need to balance the privileges of academic freedom with the responsibilities of academic duty. They exercise their academic freedom as critics and advocates but they also need to be mentors, guardians, enablers and ambassadors. Four orientations to intellectual leadership are identified: knowledge producer, academic citizen, boundary transgressor and public intellectual. These orientations are illustrated by reference to the careers of professors and show how intellectual leadership can be better understood as a transformational activity. This book tackles the question of what intellectual leadership actually is and analyses the questions most frequently associated with the role of senior academics, including:

  • How can intellectual leadership be distinguished from other forms of leadership and management?
  • How can professors balance their responsibilities both within and beyond the university?
  • How can universities make better use of the expertise of professors as leaders?

It concludes with recommendations for senior institutional managers on how to make more effective use of the expertise and leadership potential of the senior professoriate.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Research into Higher Education
Release date: February 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Bruce Macfarlane
Dimensions: 233 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-56082-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN: 0-415-56082-9
Barcode: 9780415560825

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