Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Higher Education

Part I Introduction.- 1 Coming to Care Ethics in Higher Education.- Theme and Scope.- Coming to a Research Puzzle: A Narrative Beginning.- Foregrounding Personal Justifications.- Feminist Care Ethics as a Theoretical Framework.- My Earliest Stories Linking Care and Higher Education.- Noddings's Language of Care.- Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand Leadership Experiences and Practices.- Narrative Inquiry's Methodological Commitments.- Research Design Summary.- Methodological Characteristics and Considerations.- Towards an Understanding of Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities.- References.- 2 Care Ethics that Matter.-Practical Justifications.- Contextualizing Change.- Higher Education in Neoliberal Times.- Higher Education Leadership.- Social Justifications.- Care in Education.- Care in Higher Education.- Tensions.- (En)Countering the First Tension: Organizations as Obstacles to Care.- (En)Countering the Second Tension: Leadership as a Barrier to Care.- (En)Countering the Third Tension: Gendered Care and Caring.- Beginning to Understand Care Ethics in Higher Education Leadership.- References.- Part II Stories of Experiences and Practices of Care-Centered Leadership.- 3 Beth.- Introducing Beth.- Beginning in the Middle.- Where Care Comes From.- Beginning Again.- Weaving Care and Self-Care.- As Care Seeks and (Sometimes) Finds Visibility.- Being Cared For: Friendship and Feeling Seen.- Caring into the Future.- References.-4 Lynn.- Introducing Lynn.- Connecting.- Journeying Towards Leadership.- Embracing Leadership.- Care in Her Midst.- The Relational Nature of Care.- Caring for the Work, Too.- Tending to Tensions, Too.- The Whole Self-Caring.- Self-Care and Rest.- Leaning into the Future.- Postscript.- Reference.- 5 Abby.- Introducing Abby.- Learning to Show Up, to Participate, and to Listen.- Learning to "Think on My Feet".- "There Was No Care".- Enacting Feminist Care and Care Ethics.- Deep Listening.- Being Genuine.- Caring and Chairing in Neoliberal Times.-

Christie Schultz is Dean of the Centre for Continuing Education and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina, Canada. She is a scholar of leadership in higher education, care ethics in leadership, and qualitative research methodologies-especially narrative inquiry.