Academic life : hospitality, ethics, and spirituality / John B. Bennett.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Bolton, Mass. : Anker, c2003.Description: xvii, 202 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

1882982614
9781882982615

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378.01 BEN

Contents:

1. The nature of insistent individualism 2. Why the prevalence of insistent individualism? 3. Hospitality: an essential value 4. Self, others, institutions, and the common good 5. An essential metaphor: conversation 6. The uses of conversation 7. Community and covenant 8. Engaged, but not heroic, leadership.

Summary: Bennett reminds us that our leadership decisions always presuppose our philosophies of life and that understanding precedes practice. How we understand the communities we lead informs the many practical judgments we make about directions to take, structures to create, processes to initiate, and values to uphold. Faculty may understand their departments or institutions in one of two ways: as simply aggregations of individuals or as communities of intertwined persons. From these views, two different leadership values and positions emerge. The first disposes us toward seeing academic conflict as inevitable and elevates heroic leadership styles where power is understood in terms of advancing one agenda over competitors. The second underwrites leadership as supporting openness to others and emphasizes the vital contributions that can follow.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Social Sciences	Non-fiction	378.01 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		41075

Bennett reminds us that our leadership decisions always presuppose our philosophies of life and that understanding precedes practice. How we understand the communities we lead informs the many practical judgments we make about directions to take, structures to create, processes to initiate, and values to uphold. Faculty may understand their departments or institutions in one of two ways: as simply aggregations of individuals or as communities of intertwined persons. From these views, two different leadership values and positions emerge. The first disposes us toward seeing academic conflict as inevitable and elevates heroic leadership styles where power is understood in terms of advancing one agenda over competitors. The second underwrites leadership as supporting openness to others and emphasizes the vital contributions that can follow.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-197) and index.

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