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Being an Academic Jolle Fanghanel (University of West London, UK)

Being an Academic By Jolle Fanghanel (University of West London, UK)

Being an Academic by Jolle Fanghanel (University of West London, UK)


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The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghannel explores concepts of what it means to be an academic in the 21st century.

Being an Academic Summary

Being an Academic by Jolle Fanghanel (University of West London, UK)

The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghanel discusses the effect on academics of modes of governance that have fostered the application of market principles to higher education and promoted flexibility and choice as levers for competition across the sector. She explores what it means to be an academic in the 21st century with reference to six moments of practice through which she analyses the main facets of academic work and the responses of academics to this neoliberal drive. Being an Academic effectively examines the frameworks that govern academic work and academic lives, and the personal beliefs and ideals that academics bring with them as educators and researchers in higher education. It argues that there is a rich, critical, empowering potential within the academy that can be harnessed to counter the neoliberal stance and shape a meaningful contribution to modes of enquiry that deal with complexity and uncertainty in a global world.

Drawing on empirical research collected from a global range of academics, this book examines how academics respond to structural challenges. It offers a re-appraisal of the main dynamics underpinning the professional and intellectual engagement of academics in todays universities to feed a reflection on possible responses to the complex contemporary world with which the academic endeavour is engaged. The themes explored include academics positioning towards:

    • Performativity and managerialism
    • Regulation and professionalisation of practice
    • The relation to learning and students
    • The discipline
    • Research
    • Globalisation

Each chapter includes vignettes illustrating the theme addressed, a discussion with reference to the context of policy and practice, published literature and illustrative reference to empirical data collected through interviews amongst academics in the UK, Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia.

Providing a fresh look at the role of academics in a changing world, this book is essential reading for all those engaging in higher education research, lecturers new to higher education, and practising academics navigating through their complex role.

About Jolle Fanghanel (University of West London, UK)

Joelle Fanghanel is Director of the Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning at the University of West London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction Turbulent Moments of Practice 1. The Managed Academic 2. Learning to Teach in Higher Education 3. Conceptions of Students and Learning 4. The Discipline 5. Being a Researcher in Higher Education 6. Academic Globalism and Worldly Becoming Conclusion

Additional information

NPB9780415573702
9780415573702
041557370X
Being an Academic by Jolle Fanghanel (University of West London, UK)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2011-08-26
152
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