Lecture notes: Linkage between identity and leadership
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Course
Leadership in Education (ED2BLE)
Institution
University Of Reading (UoR)
Book
Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership from around the World
What is personal identity. How is identity formed. What is social identity, with a focus on Tajfel (1979). How does culture impact identity. How does identity impact leadership. How is leadership identity formed, with a focus on Kempster (2009). Identity, salience and self-efficacy (Kempster, 2009)...
Pre-reading:
Zhao, J. & Jones, K. (2017). Women and Leadership in Higher Education in
China: Discourse and the Discursive Construction of Identity.
Interplay between multiple identities
Women’s identities are shaped & constrained by historical & cultural
influences
Women’s identities congruent with social norms & conventions
Female academics reject leader identity
Women required to obey ‘the 3 obedience’s & the 4 virtues
3 obedience’s:
1. Obey father before marriage
2. Obey husband during married life
3. Obey sons in widowhood
4 virtues:
1. Physical charm
2. Fidelity
3. Propriety in speech
4. Efficacy in needlework
People prioritise their identity in different orders
1 women = Good mother Good teacher Good manager
Many believed that a female leader should exert her leadership
charisma through female traits
Multidimensionality of identities
Key theme = women don’t identify as leaders, despite undertaking
roles that involve leadership
Acknowledge the hierarchy of order
Shaped by social norms that we abide by based on our social setting
Identity & leadership
How is identity formed?
Personal Identity
Not fixed state
Identity development = ongoing
Who am I? process that changes over
How should I act? Sense of time/throughout our lives
attachment or Shaped by early childhood
ownership. experiences/ed/work/society/culture
E.G. how we we live in
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