How to embrace academic failure : building a career with meaning, integrity and honesty / Tara Brabazon (Professor of Cultural Studies, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Australia).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brabazon, Tara, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School failure.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This compelling book explores current attitudes towards failure in academia. Tara Brabazon argues that success and failures are rarely linked and instead failure can be harnessed as both a diagnostic and a literacy to improve research integrity, authenticity, accountability and consciousness. Brabazon demonstrates how instances of failure can facilitate an awareness of asymmetrical power dynamics and injustice in academic life. How To Embrace Academic Failure illustrates how to create personal, professional and organizational change as a result of failure. It offers practical strategies for using failure to enhance academic careers and improve research ethics and teaching. Brabazon concludes by presenting an idealised academic future where a culture of failure provides transparency, rigour, ethical leadership and followership. This insightful book is a vital resource for students and scholars of higher education management, business leadership and the sociology of education. Academics in critical university studies and early career researchers will also benefit from Brabazon's novel perspective on the post-pandemic, claustropolitan university"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction: Failure literacy and developing a diagnostic for academic life

Part I: Despair

1. Failure studies

2. The crisis of the intellectual

3. 'Leadership' failure in higher education and the responseabilities of followership

Part II: Resolve

4. Use the difficulty

5. Put the problem into the work

6. An obstacle is one way

7. Bend don't break

Part III: Integrity

8. Career narratives of honesty and accountability

9. Storying a future

10. Vulnerability

Conclusion: Holding the space for failure

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035342815 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.