Overview
- Discusses NAT as a theoretical perspective capable of dealing coherently with the phenomenon
- Shows that training in HE involves teaching, learning, and curriculum development and leadership
- Is set against the background of increased relevance of HE leadership
- This book is open access which means you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research (EGTU, volume 25)
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About this book
This Open Access book addresses the theoretical grounding of the pedagogical dimensions of higher education leadership and its empirical study. The book’s general point of departure is that educational leadership is a multi-level phenomenon, operating as policy work on a transnational and national level, as educational leadership on various organizational levels, and as supervision and teaching on an interactional level. It is in and through these discursive practices that policies are initiated, interpreted, translated and enacted. The volume demonstrates how Non Affirmative Theory (NAT) of education applies to understanding and dealing with the pedagogical dimensions of the multi-level and multi-actor phenomena of HE leadership in a coherent manner. It allows one to explore how the pedagogical scope of action at each level of leadership is framed or staged by the other levels, as well as how actors at different levels utilise their scope. The book starts out by exploring the pedagogical aspects of HE leadership as a multi-level and multi-actor phenomenon at a theoretical level. It continues to discuss nation state HE in a global perspective, and HE leadership in an organisational perspective. Next, the book looks at departmental leadership, management and development. Parallel with this, the volume critically explores the non-affirmative position itself by a contrasting dialogue with other theoretical approaches.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Janne Elo graduated as M.Ed. from Åbo Akademi University in 2006. In 2015 he was awarded his PhD in education from Åbo Akademi University, with a thesis titled Entrepreneurship through Sloyd (in Swedish). Elo is currently working as a university lecturer in education and educational leadership and holds a post doc position in education. He is program director in educational leadership at ÅAU and has previously worked as a project PI as well as teacher educator at ÅAU. He is currently involved in HE teacher education, principal education, as well as acting as board member in the ÅAU board (since 2021). Elo has published mainly on the topics of entrepreneurship education and educational leadership (e.g. in Higher Education).
After his appointment as chair professor in education, at University of Helsinki in the year 2000, Michael Uljens is since 2003 professor of General Education and Educational Leadership at Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland. His research mediates between Nordic, German and Anglo-American approaches to educational philosophy and theory, curriculum studies, Didaktik, educational leadership and General Education (Allgemeine Pädagogik). Michael has been affiliated with various universities in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Spain, the USA and China. His most recent Open Access volumes in English are Non-affirmative theory of education and Bildung (Ed., 2023) andBridging Educational leadership, curriculum theory and Didaktik (2017, edited with R. Ylimaki).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multilevel Pedagogical Leadership in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A Non-Affirmative Approach
Editors: Janne Elo, Michael Uljens
Series Title: Educational Governance Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55116-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55115-4Published: 14 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55118-5Due: 28 April 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-55116-1Published: 13 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2365-9548
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 199
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Higher Education, Sociology of Education