from "Followership in Higher Education: Academic Teachers and - TopicsExpress



          

from "Followership in Higher Education: Academic Teachers and Their Formal Leaders" by Jennie Billot, Deborah West, Lana Khong, Christina Skorobohacz, Torgny Roxå, Shannon Murray and Barbara Gayle: "the findings reflect some important ways to cultivate and sustain a healthy leadership/followership relationship in teaching and learning, namely through mutual understanding, a focus on commonalities rather than differences, bi-directional empathy, and ongoing consideration towards the complex needs of the followership. Leaders play a critical role in maintaining healthy (or damaging) interactions and practices in academic work environments, as these greatly impact followers’ sense of agency, commitments to engaging in collaborative work, levels of confidence, sense of ownership, and abilities to develop into the best possible teachers who can maximize student learning. The positive and negative quality of follower-leader interactions can even impact followers and their teaching and learning work for several years afterwards, as seen in some vivid stories recounted by our participants" (p. 99).
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:26:18 +0000

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