Leadership as Service
A New Model for Higher Education in a New Century
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2006
176 pages
979-8-216-31162-1 (ISBN)
Description
This provocative and readable discussion of leadership in higher education argues that leadership is essentially an act of service; that the more responsible the leadership position, the greater the responsibility to serve. Weaving together the Servant Leadership philosophy of Robert Greenleaf with the management principles of Mary Parker Follett, Farnsworth presents a model for 21st-century educational leadership that calls upon college administrators to see themselves as "servants first." He argues that the voices and interests of many of education's key stakeholders-students, employers, and society as a whole-have been marginalized by a consolidation of power in the faculty, requiring a bold new approach to leadership that refocuses service to these important, but underrepresented constituents.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
979-8-216-31162-1 (9798216311621)
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Person
KENT A. FARNSWORTH is Mary Ann Lee Endowed Professor for Community College Leadership in the College of Education, The University of Missouri, St. Louis, where he directs the Center for International Community College Education and Leadership. He is President Emeritus of Crowder College, Neosho, Missouri, where he served for 19 years.
Content
3 The Need for New Leadership
4 Leadership as a Quest to Serve
5 Lessons from the Wisdom Traditions
6 Shaping a Syncretic Leadership
7 Shaping the Vision
8 Hearing Every Voice
9 Renewing the Social Contract
10 Empowering Toward Service
11 Redesigning Higher Education
12 Trust and Consensus during Change
13 Organizing for Service
14 Leading as Learning
15 Barriers to Leadership as Service
16 Leadership for a New Century
17 Bibliography
18 Index
4 Leadership as a Quest to Serve
5 Lessons from the Wisdom Traditions
6 Shaping a Syncretic Leadership
7 Shaping the Vision
8 Hearing Every Voice
9 Renewing the Social Contract
10 Empowering Toward Service
11 Redesigning Higher Education
12 Trust and Consensus during Change
13 Organizing for Service
14 Leading as Learning
15 Barriers to Leadership as Service
16 Leadership for a New Century
17 Bibliography
18 Index
