Faculty Members Can Lead, but Will They?
Too often, “leadership” and “management” are still thought of as positional (though the research on this point says it is not).
John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, • Change
case-in-point teaching also shifts the locus of action from the teacher to the group—from the individual to the system and the issues at stake. This mode of teaching reveals the multifaceted role in the social system of the teacher, who is at once a teacher giving access to key ideas and frameworks, an authority maintaining equilibrium in the group
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With so many resources devoted to the business of elite academics and so many people scrambling for the limited space at the top of the ladder, it is worth asking what exactly it is you get in the end—what it is we all get, because the elite students of today, as their institutions never tire of reminding them, are the leaders of tomorrow.
William Deresiewicz • The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
Broholm then raises the question of whether a pressure cooker is a hospitable space for learning.
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
“a key question in the practice of leadership becomes: How can one counteract the expected work avoidances and help people learn despite resistance?” He observes that although adaptive work is typically avoided, it is usually not avoided deliberately. It is often unconscious. So, again, adaptive leadership requires learning to look beneath the surf
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