Critical Administration in Higher Education : Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice

W. Benjamin Myers

ISBN 10: 1498596517 / ISBN 13: 9781498596510

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2019

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Critical Administration: Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice in Contemporary Higher Education explores the challenges that higher education administrators face when negotiating political commitments in the day-to-day practice of university life. Jay Brower and W. Benjamin Myers have collected reflections from 12 administrators, all of whom identify as critical/cultural scholars, about how ideological commitments affect their identities as administrators and the work they conduct. Contributors reflect on how their academic training helps them understand their role as administrators in higher education in terms of central issues surrounding power, ethics, and identity, and how they entwine with managerial responsibilities. Each contributor focuses on specific experiences where their managerial duties intersect with political commitments. Ultimately, this collection provides opportunities to observe the challenges and opportunities of performing ethical leadership in contemporary higher education. Scholars of education, critical/cultural communication, and administration will find this book particularly useful.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Jay Brower is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Arts at Western Connecticut State University.

W. Benjamin Myers is associate professor chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Toledo.

Ahmet Atay is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; British and US soap operas, the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies.

Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She has been named a Distinguished Professor by the National Communication Association-the organization's highest award of lifetime scholarly achievement in the study of human communication; she is also recipient of the Legacy Lifetime Award given by NCA's Ethnography Division, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has been honored with various outstanding faculty mentoring and teaching awards across her career. Her publications have won awards from the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the National Communication Association.

Keith Nainby is Professor of communication studies at California State University, Stanislaus, USA.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Critical Administration in Higher Education ...
Verlag: Lexington Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu