SEMINAR: Being an academic in today's universities
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In this presentation, Joelle will discuss the impact on academics of the forms of governance that have come to prevail in higher education, particularly in Europe, the US, and Australia, in the new century. Over the past few decades, reliance on state funding has gradually decreased whilst, at the same time, state control ‘from a distance’ (Neave, 1998) and competitivity within the sector have significantly increased, with the inclusion of private providers now as insiders rather than peripheral actors. This, and the galloping rate at which technology impacts on practices, has profoundly affected academic work. She will show in this presentation that academics’ responses to what has been broadly referred to as managerialism (Deem et al, 2007) are complex, and not of one piece. This presentation is based on interviews carried out in the UK, Australia, US, South Africa, and Zambia and recently published in a book last year (Fanghanel, 2012). Using ideological positioning as a theoretical framework to underpin her argument within the broader discussion of the tensions between structure and agency (Archer, 1995; 2000, 2012), Joelle examines areas of practice which illustrate the complexity of academics’ positioning towards what she calls the ‘production’ agenda. She argues that it is possible for academics to enact their personal beliefs and ideals as educators, and that a rich, critical and empowering potential exists within the academy to counteract the liberal ‘production’ stance.
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