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This book explores how the notion of the responsible university
manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education.
As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher
education sector to the forefront of policy agendas, universities
and other types of higher education institutions face increasing
scrutiny, assessment and accountability. This book examines this
phenomenon using the Nordic countries as cases in point, given the
strong public commitment towards widening participation and public
research investments. The editors and contributors analyse the
history and current transformations of the idea of the responsible
university, investigate new innovations in the educational
landscape and look into how universities have begun to organise
themselves to become more responsible. Drawing together scholars
from the humanities and the social sciences, this interdisciplinary
collection will be of interest and value to students and scholars
of the role and nature of the modern university, in addition to
practitioners and policy makers tasked with finding solutions to
address the competing and often contradictory demands posed by a
responsibility agenda.
Management and leadership have become increasingly important issues
in academic context and in educational organizations. This is
reflected in the growing branch of literature dealing with the
topic. Many books, papers and studies on academic leadership treat
academic institutions as rather homogenous entities. Although it is
commonly accepted that there is no one best way to lead -- good
leadership depends on context and on culture -- little attention
has been paid to academic leadership in the contexts of different
disciplinary or departmental cultures.
The book focuses on four distinct disciplines (history,
sociology, biology and physics). The material is based on 56
in-depth, semi-structured interviews with scholars in eight
departments representing these disciplines. Leadership histories
and cultures of the academic departments form the basis of the case
studies analyzed in this study. The case studies demonstrate how
diverse value-orientations and perspectives inherent in the
cultures of the disciplines and specialisms, and local cultural
processes in the departments, together direct and affect academic
leadership. Academic leaders may affect these processes, but a
strong local culture may considerably frame the expectations
connected to leadership. The book highlights how leadership
practices and preferences concerning leadership can vary
considerably in different disciplinary, departmental and historical
contexts. Leaders and managers in universities and other
educational organizations will benefit from the resulting insight
and understanding of cultural and social dynamics in the units and
departments they are leading.
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university
manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education.
As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher
education sector to the forefront of policy agendas, universities
and other types of higher education institutions face increasing
scrutiny, assessment and accountability. This book examines this
phenomenon using the Nordic countries as cases in point, given the
strong public commitment towards widening participation and public
research investments. The editors and contributors analyse the
history and current transformations of the idea of the responsible
university, investigate new innovations in the educational
landscape and look into how universities have begun to organise
themselves to become more responsible. Drawing together scholars
from the humanities and the social sciences, this interdisciplinary
collection will be of interest and value to students and scholars
of the role and nature of the modern university, in addition to
practitioners and policy makers tasked with finding solutions to
address the competing and often contradictory demands posed by a
responsibility agenda.
This is a study which deals with leadership in the context of
different disciplinary and departmental cultures during an era when
budget funding for universities has been declining and the power of
individual leaders is increasing. It is a comparative study
involving eight university departments, which represent four
distinct disciplines -- history, sociology, biology and physics --
at two Finnish universities. All the departments studied were
established around a single chair. Within them faculty members are
trained, teach and have common backgrounds in the same basic
discipline.
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