Leader ship in Higher Education: Facts,Fictions and Futures – Introduction to the Special Issue  

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Bolden, Richard ; Petrov, Georgy ; Gosling, Jonathan ; Bryman, Alan

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Dalam koleksi: Leadership vol. 5 no. 3 (Aug. 2009), page 291 - 310.
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This Special Issue arose out of a symposium hosted by the editors in conjunction with the Leader ship Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) at St Georges House in Windsor Castle on 31 March–1 April 2008. This event was conceived of partly as an opportunity to review the outcomes of a raft of research recently completed on behalf of the LFHE (see http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/research/projects for further details) as well as similar work on further education (FE), for the Centre for Excellence in Leader ship (CEL), and school education, for the National College for School Leader - ship (NCSL). Above all, however, we saw this as an opportunity for reflection and theorization – to consider the ‘big issues’ facing our sector and to take stock of the successes, challenges and possible futures for leader ship within higer education (HE). The event was attended by 25 people, each invited because of their extensive experience of researching and in many cases also practising leader ship in HE, or the related fields of FE or schools. Among us were two current or previous vicechancellors, two registrars, 12 professors and numerous heads of departments and research centres. The event was structured around a series of 13 paper presentations, each accompanied by a detailed response from a discussant or a group debate. Sessions were broadly grouped under one of seven themes: leader ship in context, leader ship and purpose, leader ship and management, leader ship and change, leader - ship and identity, leader ship in other parts of the education sector (FE and schools), and leader ship discourses. It concluded with a discussion of key research issues and priorities for further study. Given the historical and cultural significance of HE, Windsor Castle seemed an ideal venue to reflect on its past, present and future. Universities are some of our oldest surviving organizations, with strong links to political, corporate, cultural and community establishments. The ability to educate the future generation of professionals, business people, politicians and employees, and to create new knowledge

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