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.- Enabling Care, Now and into the Future.- Being Surrounded by Care.- Lighting the Way.- References.- 6 Genevieve.- Introducing Genevieve.- Beginnings.- The Work of Care.- The Hard Work of the Work of Care.- Receiving Care.- An Arc of Care and Not Care.- Creating Care.- Research as Self-Care.- Making Care Visible.- Feeling Cared for as a Leader.- Caring and Chairing.- Seeing Care.- Coda.- Reference.- Part III Towards Care-Centered Leadership in Higher Education.- 7 Resonant Threads.-Thinking with Resonant Threads.- Situating the Writing of the Resonant Threads.- Awakening to Three Resonant Threads.- Learning to Care: Awakening to Where Care Comes From.- Experiences of Care from Mentors.- Familial Experiences of Care.- With the Threads of This Resonance.- The Challenge of Care: Caring in Challenging Moments and Times.- The Limits of Care: Tensions in Challenging Moments.- The Labor of Care: Risking the Work of Care in Challenging Times.- With the Threads of This Resonance.- Care for the Self: A Condition of Care.- Care for the Self with Movement and Music.- Care for the Self with Research and Writing.- Care for the Self with Rest and Recalibration.- With the Threads of This Resonance.- References.- 8 Conclusion: Care-Centered Leadership in Our Midst.- Emerging Visibility of Care-Centered Leadership.- Making Care in Leadership in Higher Education Visible.- Revisiting Social, Practical, and Personal Justifications: Implications and Possibilities.- Revisiting Social Justifications: Social and Theoretical Implications and Possibilities.- Revisiting Practical Justifications: Practical Implications and Possibilities.- Revisiting Personal Justifications: Implications and What I Will Remember.- References.- Epilogue: Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Times of Change.
