Professors as Academic Leaders : Expectations, Enacted Professionalism and Evolving Roles (Paperback)

Part I: Contexts and Concepts 1. What Do We Know about Professors and Professorship? 2. Professionalism: Examining the Concept 3. Academic Leadership, Leaders and 'The Led' 4. Seeking Answers: Augmenting the Professor-Focused Knowledge Base Part II: The Perspectives of 'The Led' 5. Positive Perceptions of Professorial Academic Leadership 6. Professorship That Falls Short 7. The Bases of Assessments of Professorial Academic Leadership Part III: The Professoriate's Perspectives 8. Negotiating a Passage: Becoming a Professor in the UK Academy 9. Doing Professorship in the Twenty-First-Century Academy 10. Chasing the Ideal: Morale and Job Satisfaction in the Professoriate Part IV: Re-Shaping Professorial Professionalism 11. Pressured Professionalism: Problematising Professorial Academic Leadership 12. Re-Designing Twenty-First-Century Professorship Appendix References Index