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Collegiate Culture and Leadership Strategies

Education & Teaching

Tierney, William G.

Chaffee, Ellen Earle

Higher & Continuing Education

Amer Council on Education

William G. Tierney offers a different way of thinking about the curriculum in post-secondary curriculum than is customary. Through an in-depth analysis of seven ethnographic case studies, the author demonstrates how the curriculum itself is a cultural product which institutions of higher education construct socially. The manner in which the individual institution defines its curriculum, Tierney argues, commits it to certain philosophical and ideological choices, whether these are overtly recognized or not. It is the result of a year's research that included over 250 interviews at seven colleges in universities throughout the U.S. The volume concludes with recommendations administrators and faculty may employ in the effort to advance democracy in their colleges and universities.Organized around the theme of institutional curricula acting as a critical agent for preparing students to participate in the democratic sphere, the book begins by providing a conceptual map for the chapters which follow. Both curricular and cultural theories are reviewed and discussed. The next two sections explore the archaeology of the curriculum at the seven institutions under study. After examining the ways in which participants at the seven colleges and universities view different curricular concepts, the author illustrates how the individuals view one another's actions about the curriculum. As he demonstrates, the curriculum often becomes contested terrain because of the cultural constructions different groups develop about one another and toward the curriculum. Finally, the author offers an interpretation and analysis of the different curricula of the seven institutions, concluding with a discussion of how organizational participants might assume the roles of transformative leaders who create new curricular paths and directions for their organizations.

Curricular Landscapes, Democratic Vistas: Transformative Leadership in Higher Education

Praeger

This book is a unique invitation to rethink some of the most basic assumptions of higher education. The essays demonstrate that researchers have often concentrated on issues of effectiveness and efficiency in academe, rather than on issues of social justice and democracy. Participants in and organizations connected with higher education operate in ongoing patterns of struggle that embody competing conceptions of reality and what counts for knowledge. The essays in this volume make up a chorus of voices shaped by an interaction of dominant and subordinate forms of power. There is a focus on critical theory and the belief that education can be a transformative activity that creates conditions for empowerment.Within the framework of this book, a number of chapters deal with how those in power insert their ideas into academe. Other chapters uncover a politics of hope, and of possibility. The book is not a definitive statement but rather an initial comment to encourage discussion. Those studying curriculum and instruction, as well as all faculty, administrators, and researchers in higher education will find this book a comprehensive resource.

Culture and Ideology in Higher Education: Advancing a Critical Agenda

Naming Silenced Lives presents a series of autobiographical histories which demonstrate how educational organizations often marginalize and silence different groups. Each chapter examines the way in which a specific group has been silenced by various educational arrangements, considers the import of using autobiographies and other narrative methods to alter individuals' received circumstances and describes how this naming of silenced lives and relationships to educational institutions has proposed change.

Naming Silenced Lives: Personal Narratives and the Process of Educational Change (Critical Social Thought)

McLaughlin, Daniel

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Naming Silenced Lives: Personal Narratives and the Process of Educational Change

Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy

Scholarly yet provocatively written, Academic Outlaws presents a discussion of how life in the academic world is experienced by gay men and lesbian women. Using a narrative style that mixes autobiography, case study data and fiction, William G Tierney provides timely insight into the challenges gays and lesbians face in higher education and proposes an alternative process for redefining long-established cultural norms.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Scholarly yet provocatively written, Academic Outlaws presents a discussion of how life in the academic world is experienced by gay men and lesbian women. Using a narrative style that mixes autobiography, case study data and fiction, William G Tierney provides timely insight into the challenges gays and lesbians face in higher education and proposes an alternative process for redefining long-established cultural norms.

Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and Universities

This critique of modern academia is also a proposal for making campuses more effective -- that is, better at meeting the clients′ or customers′ needs. The author addresses the problems that many academic institutions have today in clinging to the practices and organization of the past. By outlining the many problems in organization that colleges and universities face today, the author hopes to reveal workable solutions.

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Articulates salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color. Offers a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily. Research on the organizational culture in higher education affirms that congruent cultures are better than fragmented ones, and that managing culture is an oxymoron. Such analyses often lead to the assumptions that unity of purpose is essential and leadership is impossible. This book reframes rather than suppresses these notions, and by respecting the differences, builds a commonality between them. Using data on faculty socialization in academe, the authors consider how the work of cultural leadership becomes interpretation and facilitation rather than management. Through a series of interviews using experimental forms of ethnographic presentation, Tierney and Bensimon articulate salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color, and address the issue of individuals voluntarily leaving the tenure-track. They offer a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe (S U N Y SERIES, FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION)

Bensimon, Estele Mara

State Univ of New York Pr

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Collegiate Culture and Leadership Strategies

Curricular Landscapes, Democratic Vistas: Transformative Leadership in Higher Education

Culture and Ideology in Higher Education: Advancing a Critical Agenda

Naming Silenced Lives: Personal Narratives and the Process of Educational Change (Critical Social Thought)

Naming Silenced Lives: Personal Narratives and the Process of Educational Change

Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy

Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy

Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and Universities

Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and Universities

Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe (S U N Y SERIES, FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION)