'This is a timely book of exploration that seeks illumination from experiences as well as theories.' - Mary Henkel, Brunel University, UK
This is a timely book of exploration that seeks illumination from experiences as well as theories. It moves forward studies of academic identities in a number of critically important ways. Taking as its point of departure the supercomplexity confronting and pervading contemporary higher education, it locates studies of identities firmly in the diversity of actors that shape and are shaped by it. A central feature is the exploration of voice in the historical process of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction that epitomises identity development for the editors. It succeeds in incorporating not only a variety of voices but also a dialogue between them characterised by an openness to the other as well as by individual integrity. Crucially, too, it gives due place to knowledge identities in giving first voice to a discipline-rooted critical exploration of the potential for interdisciplinarity to contribute alongside the disciplines in the construction of identities in higher education.
Mary Henkel
Professor Associate
Brunel University, UK