International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education: Critical Thinking for Global Challenges

228 Pages·2019·2.311 MB·English

by  Jill Jameson (editor)

Professor Jameson’s experience ensures that a steady hand steers us through the
important topic of her new book. Her own academic standing has enabled her to
create an excellent book with other senior academics and leaders who share her
worldwide reputation. The outcome is an important and rigorous investigation of
the criticality of the being of leadership in higher education from an international
perspective.
It is well structured, paced and stimulating. It illuminates and helps us under-
stand what is being done and what still needs to be done to ensure the integrity
of the university. If we pay heed and learn from the messages then we should be
prepared for at least the next couple of crises in higher education!
Paul Gibbs, Professor and Researcher, Centre for Education
Research and Scholarship (CERS), Middlesex University, UK
The crucial importance of leadership in organizational performance is well doc-
umented in fields as diverse as politics, sports, business, and education. Leader-
ship in higher education is particularly interesting because often those chosen to
lead universities are selected based on their personal scholarship and professional
standing rather than any demonstrated leadership ability. Professor Jameson’s cen-
tral argument about the importance of critical leadership thinking in meeting new
global challenges is well illustrated through international case studies by a care-
fully selected team of chapter authors. This book makes an important and useful
contribution to higher education leaders seeking to up their game.
David W. Chapman, Distinguished International Professor
(Emeritus), University of Minnesota, USA

International Perspectives on Leadership
in Higher Education
There is an increasing pressure for leading universities to perform well in competi-
tive global and national ranking systems. International Perspectives on Leadership in
Higher Education studies the complexity involved in the development and upkeep
of good higher education provision. Without taking anything about leadership,
management, governance, administration, authority or power for granted, this book
draws together international case studies relating to specific instances of leadership to
analyse how they relate to critical thinking and global challenges in higher education.
Using a selection of global case studies, this book explores:
• The extent to which critical thinking on global challenges is employed by
higher education leaders,
• The potential for an increase in the role of critical thinking in leadership,
• The creative potential for critical leadership thinking to transform institu-
tions and communities,
• The essential attributes of critical thinking: namely, cognitive, affective and
social dimensions, and
• The possibility for critical thinking to contribute to the global public com-
mon good by encouraging enhanced research, teaching and public service
excellence.
Responding to the ever-increasing demands of the higher education climate, In-
ternational Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education is a vital resource for
anyone occupying leadership positions in higher education institutions and any
researchers or students looking to explore the landscape of critical thinking.
Jill Jameson is Professor of Education and Chair/Director of the Centre for Lead-
ership and Enterprise at the University of Greenwich, UK, and a Visiting Fellow
(2018) and current Associate of Lucy Cavendish College and the Cambridge Ed-
ucational Dialogue Research (CEDiR) Group, Faculty of Education, University of
Cambridge, UK.
International Studies in Higher Education
Series Editors:
David Palfreyman, OxCHEPS
Ted Tapper, OxCHEPS
Scott Thomas, University of Vermont, USA
The central purpose of this Series is to see how different national and regional sys-
tems of higher education are responding to widely shared pressures for change.
The most significant of these are: rapid expansion; reducing public funding; the
increasing influence of market and global forces; and the widespread political
desire to integrate higher education more closely into the wider needs of society
and, more especially, the demands of the economic structure. The Series will com-
mence with an international overview of structural change in systems of higher
education. It will then proceed to examine on a global front the change process in
terms of topics that are both traditional (for example, institutional management
and system governance) and emerging (for example, the growing influence of
international organizations and the blending of academic and professional roles).
At its conclusion the Series will have presented, through an international per-
spective, both a composite overview of contemporary systems of higher educa-
tion, along with the competing interpretations of the process of change.
Titles in the series:
Access and Expansion Post-Massification
Opportunities and Barriers to Further Growth in Higher Education Participation
Edited by Ben Jongbloed and Hans Vossensteyn
Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education
Teaching, Learning and Identities
Edited by Liudvika Leisyte and Uwe Wilkesmann
Global Rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education
Understanding the Influence and Impact of Rankings on Higher Education, Policy and Society
Edited by Ellen Hazelkorn
Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education
Ideological and Political Struggles
Edited by David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper and Scott L. Thomas
The Changing Face of Higher Education
Is There a Crisis in the Humanities?
Edited by Dennis A. Ahlburg
International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
Critical Thinking for Global Challenges
Edited by Jill Jameson
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/
International-Studies-in-Higher-Education/book-series/ISHE
International Perspectives
on Leadership in Higher
Education
Critical Thinking for Global
Challenges
Edited by Jill Jameson
First published 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jameson, Jill, editor.
Title: International perspectives on leadership in higher education:
critical thinking for global challenges / edited by Jill Jameson.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2020. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019002236 | ISBN 9781138564343 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315122410 (ebk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Universities and colleges—Administration. |
Educational leadership—Cross-cultural studies.
Classification: LCC LB2341 .I583 2020 | DDC 378.1/01—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002236
ISBN: 978-1-138-56434-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-12241-0 (ebk)
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DR CELIA JAMESON ROSE (1948–2016)
In loving memory of my sister Celia, MRCP Physician/GP,
always an exemplar of ‘critical being’ in medicine.

Contents
List of figures xi
List of tables xii
List of contributors xiii
Series editors introduction xix
Preface xxii
Acknowledgements xxx
List of abbreviations xxxi
PART 1
Global leadership and critical thinking in higher education 1
1 Introduction 2
PROFESSOR JILL JAMESON
2 Leadership and critical thinking: oxymoron and a feasible utopia 20
PROFESSOR RONALD BARNETT
3 Critical thinking in leadership: leading change in complex contexts 31
FRANCIA KINCHINGTON
PART 2
International case studies on leadership in higher education 45
4 Europe: Spain: Spaces of hope: democratic leadership in a
workers’ cooperative university in Spain 46
PROFESSOR REBECCA BODEN
5 The United Kingdom: England: collaboration and collegiality in
university leadership 58
PROFESSOR ROB CUTHBERT
ix