Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of 'Third Space' Professionals

ISBN-13: 9780415564663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 184 str.

Celia Whitchurch

Opis

Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of Third Space Professionals draws on studies conducted in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore the roles and identities of a growing number of staff associated with broadly based institutional projects such as student life and welfare, widening participation, learning support, community partnership, research and business partnership, and institutional research.

Spis treści

Part I  1. Introduction  2. The Concept of Third Space  Part II  3. Being a Third Space Professional  4. Paradoxes and Dilemmas  Part III  5. Third Space Professionals and the Organisational Interface  6. Possible Futures

O autorze

Dr Celia Whitchurch is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of London Institute of Education. Between 2005 and 2009 she undertook two studies funded by the UK Leadership Foundation for Higher Education on the changing roles and identities of professional staff, and the emergence of a Third Space between academic and professional spheres of activity. In 2010 she edited a monograph with George Gordon, entitled Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, also published by Routledge.