Leading for Change - Race, intimacy and leadership on divided university campuses (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about, and transforming, leadership and higher education worldwide. Through an examination of the construct of intimacy and ‘nearness’, including emotional, spiritual, psychic, intellectual, and physical closeness, Jonathan Jansen demonstrates its power to influence positive leadership in young people. He argues that sensory leadership, which includes but extends beyond the power of touch, represents a fresh and effective approach to progressive transformation of long divided institutions.

Considering richly textured narratives, chapters explore complex intimacies among Black and White university students in South Africa, post-apartheid and in the aftermath of a major racial atrocity. The stories reveal the students’ transformation in the process of ‘leadership for change’, interweaving concepts of racism, human relationships and intimacy, and in turn expanding the knowledge base of social and institutional improvement. This book explores how, when different kinds of nearness come together in leadership change, young people respond in ways that would not be possible through conventional instruments such as policy, legislation and the appeal to moral sensibilities alone.

Leading for Change will be critical reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, educational justice, higher education, educational leadership and change, social and/or racial justice. This book will also be of interest to those working in the fields of anthropology, social psychology, and South African contemporary politics, policy and institutional practices.

Table of Contents

Preface 1 .A Researcher’s Guide to Intimate Storytelling 2. Dangerous Intimacies 3. "The Misnamed Free State" 4. Intimacy 5. The Resident Swastika 6. Intimacy Demands a Common Language 7. The Labour of Intimacy 8. Intimate Knowledges 9. Portraits of Intimacy 10. From Intimacy to Nearness 11. A Near and Present Danger 12. The Intimate Observer 13. Nearness in Leadership

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Routledge Research in Educational Leadership
Release date:	December 2017
First published:	2016
Authors:	Jonathan Jansen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-5763-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8153-5763-X
Barcode:	9780815357636

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