Collegiality: Leading Us into Fantasy--the Paradoxical Resilience of Collegiality in Academic Leadership

Autor/inn/en	Kligyte, Giedre; Barrie, Simon
Titel	Collegiality: Leading Us into Fantasy--the Paradoxical Resilience of Collegiality in Academic Leadership
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 33 (2014) 1, S.157-169 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2013.864613
Schlagwörter	Collegiality; Educational Theories; Higher Education; Scholarship; Universities; Fantasy; Instructional Leadership; Leadership Responsibility; Governance; Decision Making; Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kollegialität; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Scholarships; Stipendium; University; Universität; Fantasie; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Philosophie
Abstract	It has been argued that leadership in higher education differs from leadership in other organisational contexts, in part because of the culture of collegiality and autonomy underpinning academic work. Collegiality, however, is a complex and somewhat "slippery" idea that features in academic leadership literature in a variety of, sometimes contradictory, ways. We argue for the need to unpack and explore the notion of collegiality to understand what makes it such an enduring idea in academic leadership. We start by examining the multiple meanings of collegiality circulating in scholarly writing on leadership to reveal the complexity and tensions it raises for academic leaders. We then turn to Lacanian theory and explore collegiality as a subliminal fantasy that represents an important interface between "leaders" and those who are "led", and one which influences our understanding of academic work and leadership. From the perspective offered by our Lacanian exploration, we propose that in order to traverse the nostalgic fantasy of the collegial past, instead of looking for closure, it might be more useful to put indeterminacy, absence and lack at the centre of the academic leadership project. (As Provided).
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