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Bruce Macfarlane; Richard Bolden; Richard Watermeyer – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
There is a fragmented and complex literature about higher education leadership representing a diversity of ideological perspectives about its nature and purposes. Internationally, the literature has been strongly shaped by the importation of concepts and theories from management studies and a tradition of scholarship led by university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership Styles, College Administration, Governance
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Gray, Brenden Leam – Education as Change, 2017
The paper critically discusses how the notion of autonomy is textually constructed in the neo-liberal discourses of a corporatised public South African higher education system. By employing the methods of critical discourse analysis (CDA), I analyse two selected texts written by various leaders connected to the University of Johannesburg between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Commercialization, Institutional Autonomy
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Ward, Sophie C.; Bagley, Carl; Lumby, Jacky; Woods, Philip; Hamilton, Tom; Roberts, Amanda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
Responding to Thrupp's [2003. "The School Leadership Literature in Managerialist Times: Exploring the Problem of Textual Apologism." "School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation" 23 (2): 169] call for writers on school leadership to offer "analyses which provide more critical messages about social…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Equal Education, Neoliberalism, Definitions