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By taking an auto-ethnographic narrative approach, the webinar seeks to interrogate what constitutes leadership for someone who has occupied a number of roles which have supported teaching in a number of ways. Through exploring and analysing my career in higher education to date and its potential future paths with reference to and reflections upon established research and literature as a means of exploring leadership in learning and teaching. Specifically, I will focus upon how can be exercised in direct and soft ways in combination with notions of identity and purpose around being a learning technologist and online pedagogic developer in the publicly funded and alternative provider settings of UK HE. I will refer to leadership through articulating specific key challenges, issues, opportunities and threats encountered on my journey. This will be done by highlighting selected milestones, achievements, professional recognition and extensive employment within HEIs, sector bodies such as Jisc and consultancy with over 60 UK based Higher Education Institutions and Further Education Colleges.
The webinar will include an articulation of some major characteristics of several ‘personas’ that I have occupied in the course of 25 years as a “shapeshifter” within the sector, and some of these things are perhaps expressed most concisely in diagrammatic form, with explanations in the text. In order to articulate how my experiences have shown that leadership can be manifested across many institutions simultaneously in support of institutional leaders and teaching and learning. I will use Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’ as a frame of reference, in addition to policy making, agency, transformation and change, as key concepts in understanding the roles that I have played and continue to occupy within higher education in particular. In the course of this webinar will benefit attendees from analysis of implications identified in my own journey and how this might help them articulate their own place within the sector. To further readers’ self-reflection, prompts and questions will be provided. As part of this, the potential of technology to evidence leadership characteristics and behaviours allied to with their own persona(s) and how these might be used proactively when evidencing credibility and achieving impact within a sector that is in a continual state of flux will be explored.
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Martin Hawksey posted an update in the session Embodying Leadership as a Learning Technologist [329] 3 years, 3 months ago
A recording of this session is available from https://eu.bbcollab.com/recording/6050511080444a11a6495a9f70962bb1
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vhmdale joined the session Embodying Leadership as a Learning Technologist [329] 3 years, 3 months ago
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