Changing identities in higher education : voicing perspectives / edited by Ronald Barnett and Roberto Di Napoli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnett, Ronald, 1947-

Di Napoli, Roberto.

Series:

Key issues in higher education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Education, Higher.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

xiv, 226 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

What does it mean, personally and professionally, to be an academic, a student, an educational developer, an administrator or a manager in higher education today? Changing Identities in Higher Education attempts to answer such questions. Throughout the pages, readers are invited to look through the lens of a historical process of construction, de-construction, and re-construction, three movements that are seen at the heart of any identity dynamic. In this timely and innovative book, scholars from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both on their research and scholarly interests, and their work experiences. Through a combination of the analytical and the autobiographical, the synoptic and the particular, the book offers a rich and nuanced set of fresh insights into identities in higher education today.

Taking the form of a debate, and helping to take forward current thinking on identities in higher education, Changing Identities in Higher Education helps to widen the contemporary space for debates on the future of higher education itself. The book is organised into three parts: Part I offers a set of essays each on a set of identities within higher education (academic, student, administrative/managerial, and educational developers). Part II includes responses to Part I from authors speaking from their own professional and scholarly identity perspective (manager, sociologist and so on). Part III offers perspectives on the identities of students, provided by students themselves. For its original, dialogic form and varied content, this book is of interest to all those concerned in current debates about the state and nature of higher education today. It makes especially useful reading for students of higher education, lecturers in training, academics and managers alike. It is also of significance for all social theorists interested in questions of identity.

Contents:

1 Preamble: knowledge identities / Marilyn Strathern 9

2 Being an academic today / Peter Taylor 27

3 Have students got a voice? / Denise Batchelor 40

4 Identities of academic developers: critical friends in the academy? / Gunnar Handal 55

5 Beyond administration and management: changing professional identities in UK higher education / Celia Whitchurch 69

Part II Responses 89

6 The myth of a golden age? Reflections from a vice-chancellor / Robert G. Burgess 94

7 Scenes in a university: performing academic identities in shifting contexts / Laura Miller 104

8 The question of identity: negotiating roles and voices in evolving academic systems / Lynn McAlpine, Marian Jazvac-Martek, Allison Gonsalves 113

9 Academic identities and institutional change / Gerard Delanty 124

10 Academic development: identity and paradox / Ray Land 134

11 The role of professional associations in the formation of professional identity: the US experience / Victor M. H. Borden 145

Part III The students' views 159

12 A crisis in identity: the view of a postgraduate student of higher education / Susan Lapworth 163

13 Being an undergraduate student in the twenty-first century / Alison Ahearn, Oliver Broadbent, John Collins, Eirini Spentza 175

14 Postscript: academic identities and the story of institutions / David Watson 185

Coda: Identity and voice in higher education: making connections / Ronald Barnett, Roberto Di Napoli 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-215) and index.

ISBN:

0415426057

0203944909

9780415426053

9780203944905

OCLC:

81944898

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