Leading with feminist care ethics in higher education : experiences, practices, and possibilities / Christie Schultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schultz, Christie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Administration--Moral and ethical aspects.

Universities and colleges.

Feminism and higher education.

Feminist ethics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Summary:

Higher education, and leadership in higher education, is in transition. Including a feminist care ethics approach within this transition is needed if we are to consider a better, more caring, future. Schultzs work offers us a way to begin to understand the lived experiences of care ethics for leaders in higher education." Heather Zwicker, Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia This book explores how academic leaders throughout higher education experience and practice care and the ethics of care. Drawing on a narrative inquiry study of experiences and practices of feminist care ethics in higher education leadership, Schultz counters academic norms, including expectations of competition and criticism across all activities, by uncovering the common experiences of academic leaders who intentionally adopt practices guided by an ethics of care and relationality. Within the context of institutions of higher education responding to present-day social movements, the book highlights how practices of care-centered leadership can enable change that begins on campus and reaches outwards to positively impact the community. Christie Schultz is Dean of the Centre for Continuing Education and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina, Canada. She is a scholar of leadership in higher education, care ethics in leadership, and qualitative research methodologiesespecially narrative inquiry.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

1 Coming to Care Ethics in Higher Education

Theme and Scope

Coming to a Research Puzzle: A Narrative Beginning

Foregrounding Personal Justifications

Feminist Care Ethics as a Theoretical Framework

My Earliest Stories Linking Care and Higher Education

Noddingss Language of Care

Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand Leadership Experiences and Practices

Narrative Inquirys Methodological Commitments

Research Design Summary

Methodological Characteristics and Considerations

Towards an Understanding of Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities

References

2 Care Ethics that Matter

Practical Justifications

Contextualizing Change

Higher Education in Neoliberal Times

Higher Education Leadership

Social Justifications

Care in Education

Care in Higher Education

Tensions

(En)Countering the First Tension: Organizations as Obstacles to Care

(En)Countering the Second Tension: Leadership as a Barrier to Care

(En)Countering the Third Tension: Gendered Care and Caring

Beginning to Understand Care Ethics in Higher Education Leadership

Part II Stories of Experiences and Practices of Care-Centered Leadership

3 Beth

Introducing Beth

Beginning in the Middle

Where Care Comes From

Beginning Again

Weaving Care and Self-Care

As Care Seeks and (Sometimes) Finds Visibility

Being Cared For: Friendship and Feeling Seen

Caring into the Future

4 Lynn

Introducing Lynn

Connecting

Journeying Towards Leadership

Embracing Leadership

Care in Her Midst

The Relational Nature of Care

Caring for the Work, Too

Tending to Tensions, Too

The Whole Self-Caring

Self-Care and Rest

Leaning into the Future

Postscript

Reference

5 Abby

Introducing Abby

Learning to Show Up, to Participate, and to Listen

Learning to "Think on My Feet"

There Was No Care

Enacting Feminist Care and Care Ethics

Deep Listening

Being Genuine

Caring and Chairing in Neoliberal Times

Enabling Care, Now and into the Future

Being Surrounded by Care

Lighting the Way

6 Genevieve

Introducing Genevieve

Beginnings

The Work of Care

The Hard Work of the Work of Care

Receiving Care

An Arc of Care and Not Care

Creating Care

Research as Self-Care

Making Care Visible

Feeling Cared for as a Leader

Caring and Chairing

Seeing Care

Coda

Part III Towards Care-Centered Leadership in Higher Education

7 Resonant Threads

Thinking with Resonant Threads

Situating the Writing of the Resonant Threads

Awakening to Three Resonant Threads

Learning to Care: Awakening to Where Care Comes From

Experiences of Care from Mentors

Familial Experiences of Care

With the Threads of This Resonance

The Challenge of Care: Caring in Challenging Moments and Times

The Limits of Care: Tensions in Challenging Moments

The Labor of Care: Risking the Work of Care in Challenging Times

Care for the Self: A Condition of Care

Care for the Self with Movement and Music

Care for the Self with Research and Writing

Care for the Self with Rest and Recalibration

8 Conclusion: Care-Centered Leadership in Our Midst

Emerging Visibility of Care-Centered Leadership

Making Care in Leadership in Higher Education Visible

Revisiting Social, Practical, and Personal Justifications: Implications and Possibilities

Revisiting Social Justifications: Social and Theoretical Implications and Possibilities

Revisiting Practical Justifications: Practical Implications and Possibilities

Revisiting Personal Justifications: Implications and What I Will Remember

Epilogue: Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Times of Change.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Schultz, Christie, author. Leading with feminist care ethics in higher education

ISBN:

9783031171857

3031171853

OCLC:

1350936405

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