Teaching Global Leadership in Higher Education

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This book answers a need for pedagogic guidance and instruction in designing, implementing and evaluating global leadership as an academic subject. The book understands global leadership as a social practice and as a comparative subject, analysing how leadership is conceived of and practised in different countries and cultures. At the same time, the authors see global leadership from a ‘grand challenges’ perspective, engaging with the key issues of the age, some of which are identified through the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. By these means, the book proposes a distinctive global leadership curriculum with potential to aggregate and unify different approaches to the subject. The book provides the conceptual underpinning, the multicultural perspective and the practical guidance to help universities worldwide in designing and developing curricula in global leadership, a subject of increasing interest in the twenty-first century as the geopolitical, even existential challenges of the age require both research and practice which transcends the boundaries of both nations and of academic disciplines. The book will also be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of educational development and pedagogy.

Funmi Olonisakin is Professor of Security, Leadership and Development and Vice President (International, Engagement & Service) at King’s College London, UK.

Michael Flavin is Reader in Global Education at King’s College London, UK.

This book answers a need for pedagogic guidance and instruction in designing, implementing and evaluating global leadership as an academic subject. The book understands global leadership as a social practice and as a comparative subject, analysing how leadership is conceived of and practised in different countries and cultures. At the same time, the authors see global leadership from a ‘grand challenges’ perspective, engaging with the key issues of the age, some of which are identified through the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. By these means, the book proposes a distinctive global leadership curriculum with potential to aggregate and unify different approaches to the subject. The book provides the conceptual underpinning, the multicultural perspective and the practical guidance to help universities worldwide in designing and developing curricula in global leadership, a subject of increasing interest in the twenty-first century as the geopolitical, even existential challenges of the age require both research and practice which transcends the boundaries of both nations and of academic disciplines. The book will also be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of educational development and pedagogy.

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“Extraordinary challenges face the coming generations of leaders, connected with conflict, inequality and climate, all too big and complex to be addressed without cooperation across borders. To help them Michael Flavin and Funmi Olonisakin explore how appropriate curricula for Global Leadership programmes can be developed and delivered.” (Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London, UK)

“This book is a compelling pathfinder, exploring what a Global Leadership curriculum can look like in higher education and engaging in key subject debates to enhance our knowledge and understanding.” (Baroness Bull, Cross Bench Peer, House of Lords, UK)

“This book provides an excellent account of a diverse range of theories and scholarly sources, examining a tight set of global leadership themes - from leadership itself to culture, strategy and tactics – all essential for teaching and practising global leadership in higher education.” (Professor Ihron Rensburg, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

“Global Leadership is a young subject in the higher education curriculum, but a vitally important one in view of the global challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. This book enhances and accelerates our study of Global Leadership, benefiting both academia and, in turn, wider communities.” (Professor Sir Ed Byrne, President of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
 

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