Dissertation
Expansive Learning Leadership Initiative: a model for developing learning and teaching leadership in higher education
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast
2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00191
Abstract
This study investigated the value of an innovative leadership development program for emerging academic leaders of learning and teaching and their university. The program, called the Expansive Learning Leadership Initiative (ELLI), was designed as a formative intervention. The pedagogical design was based on Expansive Learning and used two significant mediating tools: leadership laboratories, which were framed around collaborative professional learning conversations, and participants' projects, which were themselves formative interventions that engaged participants in leading an educational innovation. The ELLI was conducted over 10 months and the participants were 15 academics identified as emerging leaders and two facilitators, one of whom was also the researcher. Data were collected throughout the program from four sources: small group interviews, video recordings from each of five leadership laboratories conducted with the participants and participants' final presentation at the university's Senior Staff Forum, a series of artifacts generated at the leadership laboratories and critical reflections by the researcher constructed after interactions with participants. Data were analysed using three distinct methods: thematic analysis, the D-Analysis protocol and the expansive learning cycle.
Details
- Title
- Expansive Learning Leadership Initiative: a model for developing learning and teaching leadership in higher education
- Authors
- Kylie Readman
- Contributors
- Jennifer Rowe (Supervisor)
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00191
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451264602621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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