Representations of Academic Life: Institutional and Personal Values
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Representations, Academic life, Values, Dissonance.Supporting Agencies:
Centro de Investigação em Educação da Universidade do MinhoAbstract
The way academics construct professional identities and operate in a complex profession that is under pressure depends on how they position themselves in relation to institutional cultures. In order to investigate faculty representations of academic life, a survey case study (questionnaire and interviews) focusing on potential dissonance between institutional and personal values was conducted at the University of Minho (Braga-Portugal), a research-teaching university. Dissonance was found related to teaching, research, working climate, relationships and leadership, suggesting a person-organization misfit. Dissatisfaction arising from values incongruence co-exists with efforts for self-fulfilment as academics struggle to preserve their identity while realizing that institutional priorities may run counter to their ideals. Acknowledging dissonance as a vital element within a culture of respect for diversity would foster the negotiation of understandings about what the academic community is and might be. Institution-specific inquiry into academic experience should not only be expanded but also become part of the strategic (re)definition of institutional development policies.Downloads
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Ditton, M. J. (2009). How social relationships influence academic health in the ‘enterprise university’: An insight into productivity of knowledge workers. Higher Education Research & Development, 28(2), 151-64.
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Gapa, J. M., Austin, A. E. & Trice, A. G. (2007). Rethinking faculty work: Higher educations’ strategic imperative. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Gordon, G. (2010). The roles of leadership and ownership in building and effective quality culture. Quality in Higher Education, 8(1), 97-106.
Gottlieb, E. & Keith, B. (1997). The academic research-teaching nexus in eight advanced-industrialized countries. Higher Education, 34, 397-420.
Henkel, M. (2007). Can academic autonomy survive in the knowledge society? A perspective from Britain. Higher Education Research & Development, 26(1), 87-99.
Harvey, L. & Williams, J. (2010). Fifteen years of quality in higher education (Part Two). Quality in Higher Education, 16(2), 81-113.
Johnsrud, L. (2002). Measuring the quality of faculty and administrative worklife: Implications for college and university campuses. Research in Higher Education, 43(3), 379-395.
Kenny, J. D. (2009). Managing a modern university: Is it time for a rethink? Higher Education Research & Development, 28(6), 629-42.
Locke, W. & Bennion, A. (2010). The changing academic profession in the UK and beyond. Research Report published by Universities UK. Retrieved from http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Publications/Pages/TheChangingAcademicProfession.aspx
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Teichler, U. & Yagci, Y. (2009). Changing challenges of academic work: Concepts and observations. In V. L. Meek, U. Teichler & M.-L. Kearney (Eds.), Higher education, research and innovation: Changing dynamics. Report on the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge 2001-2009 (Kassel, ICHER). Retrieved from http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=59371&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Twale, D. & DeLuca, B. (2008). Faculty incivility-The rise of the academic bully culture and what to do about it. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Vieira, F. (2009). Developing the scholarship of pedagogy-Pathfinding in adverse settigs. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9(2), 10–21.
Waitere, H. J., Wright, J., Tremaine, M., Brown, S. & Pausé, C. J. (2011). Choosing whether to resist or reinforce the new managerialism: The impact of performance-based research funding on academic identity. Higher Education Research & Development, 30(2), 205-17.
Winter, R. (2009). Academic manager or managed academic? Academic identity schisms in higher education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 31(2), 121-31.
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