Collegiality: Setting the Agenda

Abstract

The writing of this book requires us to place our study of the collegial tradition in context: the social, economic and political forces with which it interacts thus reshaping its identity. There is, however, an additional context within which this book has to be located, that is the literature attempting to understand – describe, analyse, evaluate and prescribe – the concept of collegiality. It is the presentation of this framework, composed of the pertinent literature, that forms the central purpose of this chapter.