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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Context and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education explores the importance of cultural, political, socioeconomic and historical context in change leadership in higher education. With contributions from four continents, the handbook brings together multi-contextual perspectives to explore the importance of context to the development of the field. A broad range of topics are covered, including skills, strategies and dispositions; local, regional and cross-national partnership development; opportunities and considerations for technology; and, future visions. Countries covered include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Dubai, Ghana, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the USA. The book forms part of the Bloomsbury Handbooks of Crises and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education collection, brought together by Mary Drinkwater.

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Positioned at the intersection of transformative leadership and specific higher education contexts and challenges, this volume provides 16 theoretically informed case studies that explore an intentionally diverse range of national, regional and local experiences. These are thoughtful, reflective essays on leadership in context, each with an explicit summary of lessons learned, contributing to a masterful collection of stimulating insights and illuminating observations. -- Glen A. Jones, University of Toronto, Canada This Handbook offers a diverse set of perspectives and authors, cohering around a social justice-oriented vision of Higher Education, and a deep awareness of the importance of contextualised, transformational HE leadership. Across the chapters a comparative, international and global understanding emerges, situated in nuanced analyses of rapid changes, complexities, and intersectionalities in the HE sector. Overall it provides a timely alternative to dominant discourses of excellence in universities, and will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students who research universities, but also to everyone who works in them. -- Michele Schweisfurth, Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Glasgow, UK

Positioned at the intersection of transformative leadership and specific higher education contexts and challenges, this volume provides 16 theoretically informed case studies that explore an intentionally diverse range of national, regional and local experiences. These are thoughtful, reflective essays on leadership in context, each with an explicit summary of lessons learned, contributing to a masterful collection of stimulating insights and illuminating observations. -- Glen A. Jones, University of Toronto, Canada

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Mary Drinkwater is a Lecturer in Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, and Comparative International and Development Education, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. She is also an Adjunct Faculty at Yorkville University, Canada. Patrick Deane is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Canada. He is also President of the Governing Council of the Magna Charta Observatory in Bologna, Italy, and Vice-President of the International Association of Universities.

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