Description: "This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday life and interactions. In the precarious present and, what has changed and why? What might now be the new social reality within which we work?"--
Brief description: Helen M. Gunter is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Review Quotes:
"The book embraces with rigour and relish the task of critiquing the dominant political discourse surrounding universities and wider society. It urges leaders throughout the higher education ecosystem to examine their practices and to redress the iniquities of precarity in higher education." --Paul Gentle, Academic Director, Invisible Grail, UK
"A refreshing new approach to intellectual leadership in higher education. Drawing on global examples, the authors grapple with the precarious contexts within which faculty, students, staff and administrators co-exist today. Readers are challenged to resist the notion that universities are in decline and to actively participate in reclaiming their purpose to produce knowledge for the common good." --Margaret Grogan, Professor Emerita of Educational Leadership and Policy, Chapman University, USA "This broad-ranging and thought-provoking book provides much food for thought that is empirical, theoretical and practical. Its strength is that it offers tools to think with rather than solutions." --Rebecca Boden, Research Director of New Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland "A hopeful path forward for intellectual leadership as a crucial element of a better and more socially just future." --Mary Churchill, Associate Dean and Professor of the Practice, Boston University, USA