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- Fills a gap in empirical, theory based scholarly work on leadership
- Broadens the understanding of the generativity potential of women leaders in midlife
- Identifies influences of legacies on generativity and core leadership values that inform generativity
- Enables higher education institutions to create effective programs to develop generativity in their leaders
- Hands-on exercises readers can use to identify their legacies and core leadership values
- A Leadership Legacy Statement Template readers can use clarify, articulate, and write a personal leadership legacy statement
Part of the book series: Studies in Educational Leadership (SIEL, volume 18)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Our colleges and universities are being led in large part by baby boomers who are now in later midlife. Huge numbers of those middle-aged leaders will retire within the next 10 years. While we know that being in later midlife and impending retirement must influence a person in a leadership position at an institution of higher learning, we don’t really understand how.Â
This book is based upon an empirical study that linked higher education leadership to one aspect of midlife known as generativity. This psychosocial phenomenon was described by Erik Erikson as a desire that peaks in midlife to leave something for future generations before one dies. Generativity typically manifests itself in the legacy one intends to leave. The author of this book has completed a multiple case study of women who are in later midlife and who hold high-level leadership positions at an institution of higher learning. In this work, she shares more than has ever been known about the nature, antecedents, and support of generativity in the leadership of female higher education leaders in midlife. Â
Authors and Affiliations
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Blue Pencil Institute, Fairfax, USA
Laura Hills
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lasting Female Educational Leadership
Book Subtitle: Leadership Legacies of Women Leaders
Authors: Laura Hills
Series Title: Studies in Educational Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5019-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5018-0Published: 15 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9735-2Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5019-7Published: 14 August 2012
Series ISSN: 1572-3909
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0130
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 210
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership