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Pedagogic Frailty and Resilience in the University

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This chapter is about the importance of distributed leadership in institutions of higher education as a means to enhance pedagogy. It is explained that the emphasis on engagement, participation and collaboration of a distributed leadership approach encourages academics and professional staff to work together to contribute their expertise to jointly determined goals.

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  1. School of Management, RMIT, Australia

    Sandra Jones

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  1. University of Surrey, UK

    Ian M. Kinchin

  2. University of Surrey, UK

    Naomi E. Winstone

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Jones, S. (2017). Academic Leadership. In: Kinchin, I.M., Winstone, N.E. (eds) Pedagogic Frailty and Resilience in the University. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-983-6_12

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