Academic Life in the Measured University: Pleasures, Paradoxes and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781138369535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Tai L. Peseta; Simon Barrie; Jan McLean

Opis

This book explores the cracks and fragility in academic life, and addresses the need to rigorously research the field. Focusing on the measured university, it traces how academic life had ceded itself to the logics of perverse measures, and raises questions about whether the contemporary university may well have become too measured to adequately counter the political times now upon us. This book was originally published as a special issue of Higher Education Research & Development.

Spis treści

Introduction – Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics  1. Higher degree research by numbers: beyond the critiques of neo-liberalism  2. The paradox of collaboration: a moral continuum  3. Measures of success: cruel optimism and the paradox of academic women’s participation in Australian higher education  4. Counting on demographic equity to transform institutional cultures at historically white South African universities?  5. The mismeasure of academic labour  6. Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university  7. Made to measure: early career academics in the Canadian university workplace  8. Fear and loathing in the academy? The role of emotion in response to an impact agenda in the UK and Australia  9. Challenging a measured university from an indigenous perspective: placing ‘manaaki’ at the heart of our professional development programme  10. Measuring the ‘gift’: epistemological and ontological differences between the academy and Indigenous Australia  11. Target-setting, early-career academic identities and the measurement culture of UK higher education  12. The missing measure? Academic identity and the induction process  13. Lost souls? The demoralization of academic labour in the measured university