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Leadership Within Higher Education: Social Reproduction and Tensions in Producing Innovation

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Although much can be learned from the past in order to improve the future, leadership behaviors and strategies within higher education settings must pursue innovation. To remain stagnate, to only reproduce, does not best position an institution, or society, for current and future success. There is an obvious and important tension between innovation and ongoing practices of social reproduction. Innovation in higher education represents two related concepts: (1) creating improvements to practice, often through new ways of doing so and regardless of scope, and (2) arguably, most importantly, having these improvements prove applicable and effective within higher education and among the many stakeholders. Social reproduction is continuing what already exists. In addition, being innovative without also being ethically useful offers little true benefit.

The impacts of leaders are too many for leadership to remain unchanged; we simply must ethically improve our work in order to...

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  1. University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Chris M. Lucas

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  1. WMIER, The University of Waikato WMIER, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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  1. Educational Policy with Global Perspectives, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Alexander J. Means

  2. University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Amy Sojot

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Lucas, C.M. (2019). Leadership Within Higher Education: Social Reproduction and Tensions in Producing Innovation. In: Peters, M., Heraud, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_176-1

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