1 - Re-imagining Leadership Development for Middle-level Academic Leaders in Africa
Corresponding Author(s) : Oliver Seale
Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique,
Vol. 17 No 1-2 (2019): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique: Numéro sur Leadership et enseignement supérieur en Afrique
Résumé
L’université est aujourd’hui un conglomérat de connaissances1 postmoderne, néolibéral, compétitif et sans frontières, loin de ses racines historiques, traditionnelles, classiques et collégiales. Bien qu’elle reste fidèle à sa mission principale de recherche, d’enseignement et d’engagement communautaire, sa forme organisationnelle a considérablement changé, avec des implications concomitantes de gouvernance, de leadership et de gestion, en particulier dans
un monde en développement. Les perturbations et protestations régionales et institutionnelles d’étudiants et d’autres parties prenantes de pays africains comme l’Algérie, le Kenya, le Soudan et, plus récemment, l’Afrique du Sud avec des campagnes comme #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall et #OpenStellenbosch illustrent clairement cet environnement nébuleux et difficile de l’enseignement supérieur sur le continent. L’article fournit une réflexion et un engagement sur ces questions importantes et tente d’illustrer que : (i) les contextes, mondial et local, de l’enseignement supérieur ont changé de façon spectaculaire avec des niveaux supplémentaires et concomitants de complexité pour les responsables universitaires ; (ii) cet environnement a des implications pour les universités, dans la conception et la pratique du leadership et de la gestion de niveau intermédiaires en particulier les dirigeants ; et (iii) ce cadre fournit la toile de fond pour une intervention de leadership académique holistique et intégrée dans les universités en Afrique.
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Bourdieu, P. & Wacquant, L.J.D., 1992, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Oxford: Polity Press.
Bouty, I., 2000, ‘Interpersonal and interaction influences on informal resource exchanges between R&D researchers across organisational boundaries’, Academy of Management Journal, vol. 43, pp. 50-65.
Burgoyne, J., Mackness, J. & Williams, S., 2009, Research and Development Series, Final Report: Baseline Study of Leadership Development in Higher Education. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, UK.
Cohen, D. & Prusak, L., 2001, In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organisations Work, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Day, D.V., 1999, ‘Leadership Development: A Review of Industry Best Practices’, (Tech. Rep. No. 1141), Fort Leavenworth, KS: Army Research Institute.
Debowski, D. & Blake, V., 2004, ‘The developmental needs of higher education academic leaders in encouraging effective teaching and learning: Seeking Educational Excellence, Teaching and Learning Forum, University of Western Australia.
Dewey, J., 1933, How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking and the Educational Process, New York: D. C. Heath.
Duderstadt, J.J., 2005, ‘The Future of Higher Education in the Knowledge-Driven, Global Economy of the 21st Century’, in G.A. Jones, P.L. McCarney, & M. Skolnik, eds., Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations: The Changing Role of Higher Education, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 81-101.
Everingham, C., 2001, ‘Reconstituting community: social justice, social order and the politics of community’, Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 105-122.
Gmelch, W. & Buller, J., 2015, Academic Leadership Capacity – A Guide to Good Practice, San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Greicar, M.B., 2009, ‘The Professional Preparation of Academic Deans’, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MWERA Annual Meeting, Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel, St. Louis, MOOnline.2013-12-29. Available at:
http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p379872_index.html
Huey, J., 1994, ‘The New Post-Heroic Leadership’, Fortune, 21 February, pp. 42-50.
Huntley-Moore, S. & Panter, J., 2003, ‘Does discipline matter? Issues in the design and implementation of management development programmes for heads of academic departments’, Annual Conference Proceedings of HERDSA (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Inc.), Christchurch, New Zealand. Investopedia - http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economiccapital
Johnson, B. & M. Cross., 2006, ‘Academic leadership under siege: possibilities and limits of executive deanship’, South African Journal of Higher Education, vol. 187, no. 2, pp. 34-58.
Jowi, J.O., 2018, ‘Deans in Kenyan universities: their leadership styles and impacts on staff commitment’, PhD Dissertation at University of Twente, DOI: 10.3990/1.9789036545570. Available at https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/cheps/news/james-jowi-otieno-cheps-dissertation-may-2018-final-including-cover.pdf
Kukla, A., 2000., Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science, London: Routledge.
Littlejohn, S.W., 1983, Theories of Human Communication, 2nd Ed., Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
McMahon, M. 1997, ‘Social constructivism and the worldwide web - a paradigm for learning’, Paper presented at the ASCILITE conference. Perth, Australia. Retrieved from http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/perth97/papers/Mcmahon/Mcmahon.html
Northouse, G., 2007, Leadership Theory and Practice, 3rd Ed.,Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc.
OECD., 1998, Human Capital Investment: An International Comparison, Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Parry, K.W., 1998, ‘Grounded theory and social process: a new direction for leadership research’, Leadership Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, pg. 1.
Pounder, J.S., 2001, ‘“New leadership” and university organisational effectiveness: exploring the relationship’, Leadership and Organisational Development Journal, vol. 22 no. 6, pp. 281-290.
Rosser, V.J., Johnsrud, L.K. & Heck, R.H., 2003, ‘Academic deans and directors: assessing their effectiveness from individual and institutional perspectives’, Journal of Higher Education, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
Schuller, T., 2000, ‘Social and human capital: the search for appropriate technomethodology’, Policy Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 25-35.
Scott, G., Coates, H., & Anderson, M., 2008, ‘Learning leaders in times of change: academic leadership capabilities for Australian higher education’, University of Western Sydney and Australian Council for Educational Research. Available at http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/UWSACER_CarrickLeadershipReport.pdf
Seale, O., 2015, ‘Building leadership and management capacity for deans in South African higher education’, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Available at: http://146.141.12.21/handle/10539/18232
Seale, O. & Cross, M., 2017, ‘Executivism and deanship in selected South African universities’, Oxford Review of Education, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 275-290.
Seale, O. & FitzGerald, P., 2016, ‘Between a rock and a hard place: university management and the #FeesMustFall campaign’, in S. Booysen, ed., Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa,Johannesburg: Wits Press.
Senge, P., 1990, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, New York: Doubleday.
Spillane, J., Halverson, R. & Diamond, J.B., 2001, ‘Investigating school leadership practice: a distributed perspective’, Educational Researcher, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 23-28.
Wall, K.J., 2015, ‘Administrative development for Academic Deans in the California State University system’, Unpublished PhD Thesis, California State University, San Bernadino.
Wepner, SB., Henk. B. & Lovell, S., 2015, ’Developing deans as effective leaders for today’s changing educational landscape’, Journal of Higher Education Management, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 51-64. Wikipedia, – Accessed 06/07/2019: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_capital
Wisniewski, M., 2000, ‘Leadership in higher education: implications for leadership development’, Academic Leadership, The Online Journal.