Community College Leadership Discourses in Dissertation Abstracts, 1980 to 2020

Autor/in	Ayers, David F.
Titel	Community College Leadership Discourses in Dissertation Abstracts, 1980 to 2020
Quelle	In: Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 47 (2023) 9, S.565-581 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ayers, David F.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-8926
DOI	10.1080/10668926.2022.2050841
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Gender Differences; Discourse Analysis; Doctoral Dissertations; College Administration; Leadership Role; Leadership Training; Crisis Management; Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; College Presidents; Administrator Qualifications; Organizational Change; Criticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Geschlechterkonflikt; Diskursanalyse; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Führungslehre; Krisenmanagement; Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Organisationswandel; Kritik
Abstract	Researchers have criticized the professional and academic literature on community colleges for its gendered construals of leaders and leadership. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods associated with corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS), I identified discourses of leaders and leadership in abstracts of 9,863 dissertations about community colleges. All abstracts were published between 1980 and 2020. Findings suggest that discourses of community college leadership have evolved across five dimensions: (a) leadership models, (b) socially constructed categories, (c) roles and hierarchies, (d) leadership development, and (e) leadership crisis. Discourses related to the first three dimensions appear consistently throughout the 40-year period. Discourses related to the latter two dimensions emerge in the mid-2000s. I hypothesize a leadership imaginary in which the survival of the community college depends on a mythical, hero-president whose outstanding competencies and undivided commitment uniquely qualify him to defy organizational norms and lead transformation. The article concludes with a critique of this gendered imaginary and a call to reimagine the structure of leadership work. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01