Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care

ISBN-13: 9783030758615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 399 str.

Alison L. Black; Rachael Dwyer

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This book explores the capacities and desires of academic women to reimagine and transform academic cultures. Embracing and championing feminist scholarship, the research presented by the authors in this collection holds space for a different way of being in academia and shifts the conversation toward a future that is hopeful, kind and inclusive. Through exploring lived experiences, building caring communities and enacting an ethics of care, the authors are reimagining the academy’s focus and purpose. The autoethnographic and arts-based research approaches employed throughout the book provide evocative conceptual content, which responds to the symbolic nature of transformation in the academy. This innovative volume will be of interest and value to feminist scholars, as well as those interested in disrupting and rejecting patriarchal academic structures.

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Reimagining the Academy: Conceptual, Theoretical, Philosophical, and Methodological Sparks.

Theme I. Holding Space for Story, Struggle and Possibility.- Black Warrior Women Scholars Speak.

My Journey of a Thousand Miles.

How Does a Woman Find Her Voice and Not Lose Her Soul in Academia?.

Theme II. Building Caring Communities and Enacting an Ethics of Care.

Mentoring Beyond the Finite Games: Creating Time and Space for Connection, Collaboration and Friendship

A Collective Feminist Ethics of Care with Talanoa: Embodied Time in the ShiFting Spaces of Women’s Academic Work

Emotional Labour Pains: Rebirth of the Good Girl 

More than Tolerance: A Call to ShiFt the Ableist Academy Towards Equity

Arts-Based Reflection for Care of Self and Others in the Academy: A Collaged Rhizomatic Journey

Slow Pedagogies and Care-Full, Deep Learning in Preservice Teacher Education

Women Navigating the ‘Academic Olympics’: Achieving Activism Through Collaborative Autoethnography

Envisioning Caring Communities in Initial Teacher Education

Writing, Playing, Transforming: A Collaborative Inquiry into Neoliberalism’s Effects on Academia, and the Scope for Changing the Game

Theme III. ShiFting, Renewing and Reimagining the Academy

The In/Finite Game of Life: Playing in the Academy in the Face of Life and Death

Beyond Survival: The ShiFt to Aesthetic Writing

The Gift of Wit(h)nessing Transitional Moments Through a Contemplative Arts Co-inquiry

Remaking Academic Garments

Canon, Legacy or Imprint: A Feminist Reframing of Intellectual Contribution

Beyond Shame and Pride: The University as a Game of Love

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​Ali Black is a senior Lecturer and arts-based/narrative researcher in the School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research and scholarly work fosters connectedness, community, well-being, and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities.

Rachael Dwyer is a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research interests include teacher education, music and arts education, critical pedagogy, women/mothers in academia and narrative inquiry.