Leading for Change: Race, Intimacy and Leadership on Divided University Campuses

ISBN-13: 9780815357636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str.

South Africa Jonathan (University of the Free State Jansen

Opis

This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about, and transforming, leadership and higher education worldwide. It examines the construct of intimacy and ‘nearness’, including emotional, spiritual, psychic, intellectual, and physical closeness, demonstrating its power to influence positive leadership in young people.

Spis treści

Preface  1 .A Researcher’s Guide to Intimate Storytelling  2. Dangerous Intimacies  3. "The Misnamed Free State"  4. Intimacy  5. The Resident Swastika  6. Intimacy Demands a Common Language  7. The Labour of Intimacy  8. Intimate Knowledges  9. Portraits of Intimacy  10. From Intimacy to Nearness  11. A Near and Present Danger  12. The Intimate Observer  13. Nearness in Leadership

O autorze

Jonathan Jansen is Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State, South Africa, and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Developing World. In 2013 he was awarded the Education Africa Lifetime Achiever Award in New York and the Spendlove Award from the University of California, USA, for his contributions to tolerance, democracy and human rights.