Identity Work in the Contemporary University : Exploring an Uneasy Profession / / edited by Jan Smith, Julie Rattray, Tai Peseta, Daphne Loads.

"Academic identities research is a growing area of scholarly enquiry especially as academics themselves question the evolving nature of their roles in rapidly-changing university environments. Performative frameworks in many countries around the world reflect these changes and this volume bring...

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Superior document:Educational Futures, Rethinking Theory and Practice , 1
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Series:Educational Futures, Rethinking Theory and Practice , 1
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Mapping the Terrain of Identity-Work Research
  • Part I: On Conceptualising Academic Identities Work
  • From Professional Educational Values to the Satisfaction of Psychological Needs – A Sequence of Ideas
  • Forging Academic Identities from within: Lessons from the Ancient World
  • A Labour of Love? Curiosity, Alienation and the Constitution of Academic Character
  • The Mechanics of Identity Formation: A Discursive Psychological Perspective on Academic Identity
  • Part II: On Researching Academic Identities
  • Uneasy Academic Subjectivities in the Contemporary Ontario University
  • On the Conduct of Concern: Exploring How University Teachers Recognise, Engage in, and Perform ‘Identity’ Practices within Academic Workgroups
  • Finding a Tūrangawaewae: A Place to Stand as a Tertiary Educator
  • Part III: On Writing Academic Identities
  • Writing of the Heart: Auto-Ethnographic Writing as Subversive Story Telling – A Song of Pain and Liberation
  • Doctoral Induction Day: An Ethnographic Fiction on Doctoral Emotions
  • Doctoral Supervisor and Student Identities: Fugitive Moments from the Field
  • Toil and Trouble: Professional and Personal Expectations and Identities in Academic Writing for Publication
  • Part IV: On Supporting Academic Identity Development
  • Creative Research Strategies for Exploring Academic Identity
  • Recognising Ourselves and Each Other in Professional Recognition
  • The Metanoia of Teaching: Translating the Identity of the Contemporary Academic
  • Epilogue: Continuing the Conversation
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index. .