Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Higher Education: Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities

This book explores how academic leaders throughout higher education experience and practice care and the ethics of care. Drawing on a narrative inquiry study of experiences and practices of feminist care ethics in higher education leadership, Schultz counters academic norms, including expectations of competition and criticism across all activities, by uncovering the common experiences of academic leaders who intentionally adopt practices guided by an ethics of care and relationality. Within the context of institutions of higher education responding to present-day social movements, the book highlights how practices of care-centered leadership can enable change that begins on campus and reaches outwards to positively impact the community.

Christie Schultz is Dean of the Centre for Continuing Education and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina, Canada. She is a scholar of leadership in higher education, care ethics in leadership, and qualitative research methodologies--especially narrative inquiry.