Identity and Leadership: Informing Our Lives, Informing Our Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0931654831 ISBN 13: 9780931654831

Publisher: HUMAN KINETICS PUB INC, 2012

Synopsis

Identity manifests in the way we lead, supervise, make decisions, persuade, form relations, and negotiate responsibilities each day. Student affairs professionals, who are often at the center of transformative efforts for social justice, diversity, and educational equity on college and university campuses, must understand how their own identities impact the way they interpret, work with, and lead across differences. This book offers experienced and emerging leaders a window into understanding the deep intersections of identity and professional practice as well as guideposts for individual leader development. Through personal narratives, the contributing authors discuss the significant impact of their identities in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, sexuality, gender, socioeconomic cl, nationality, disability, spirituality, and religion on their roles as higher education leaders. A model of identity, leader, and social justice with ways of being and doing is provided and illustrated through the author narratives. The book shows how student affairs professionals can use autobiographical writing to better understand how personal identities influence interactions with students and colleagues. The book begins by introducing frameworks of identity and leader, current research, theory, and why attention to intersections of identity and leader is important for student affairs professionals. The second part features a collection of essays written by higher education leaders who examine how specific identities emerge in their leader practice and how they strive to manage across differences authentically from within these identities. The book concludes with an Identity and Leader Autobiography ignment, which guides readers step-by-step through the process of reflecting on how their own identities and experiences impact their leader practice. This ignment may also be used to facilitate self-reflection activities in group settings.

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About the Author

Alicia Fedelina Chavez is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of New Mexico. She served as collegiate leader, student affairs professional, and faculty member in universities around the country. Her scholarship is centered in facilitating understanding and balance between cultural epistemologies and ways of being in professional practice. She works from a belief that higher education institutions and societies benefit from garnering the strengths of many peoples, cultures, and nations. Dr. Chavez is published in areas of culture and college teaching as well as identity and collegiate leadership. Her publications include a co-authored book on culture and college teaching, "Web Based Teaching across Culture and Age" (Springer, 2013), as well as two co-edited books on identity and leadership in higher education, "Identity & Leadership: Informing our Lives, Informing our Practice" (NASPA, 2013) and, "Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education" (Routledge, in press). Her academic journal articles include: "Clan, Sage, and Sky: Indigenous, Hispano and Mestizo Narratives of Learning in New Mexico Context; Toward a Multicultural Ecology of Teaching and Learning; and Learning to Value the Other: A Model of Diversity Development."

Edition details

• Publisher: HUMAN KINETICS PUB INC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0931654831
• ISBN 13: 9780931654831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304