Defining Professional Self: Teacher Educator Perspectives of the Pre-ECR Journey.

MacDonald, A; Cruickshank, Vaughan; Mccarthy, Robyn; Reilly, Fiona

doi:10.14221/ajte.2014v39n3.5

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“…On the other hand, the promotion of new types of highly precarious contracts together with the great difficulty in obtaining some stability in the university world has contributed to accentuate the impact on academics (Hemmings et al., 2013; Kerfoot & Knights, 1995; Lorenzetti et al., 2019; MacDonald et al, 2014). In this situation, young academics have become a particularly vulnerable group (Castelló et al., 2015; Macoun & Miller, 2014).…”

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Early career researchers' identity: A qualitative review

Mula

Rodríguez

Segovia

2021

Higher Education Quarterly

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In recent decades, higher education has witnessed the development of a series of policies aimed at improving its quality. To this end, accountability measures have been promoted, which are having a major impact on academics. In addition, the precariousness of work in this professional sector is contributing to emphasise its consequences. In this context, early career researchers have become a highly vulnerable group, as the pretence of wanting to be part of the academic world is becoming an increasingly challenging purpose. This systematic review of the literature aims to collect and systematise the most relevant contributions on the impact that this situation has on the professional identity of young academics. To this end, a bibliographic search was carried out in four different databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Education Resources Information Center, Google Scholar), which yielded a total of 24 articles published in international journals. The results show how the political‐economic measures that currently surround higher education are contributing to the development of a new neoliberal academic subject characterised by a professional identity unconsciously subjected to the system's requirements. This identity is characterised by a prioritisation of research over teaching, by the development of unethical research practices and by their impact on health and social and family relations. Finally, the need for more studies in this line with other approaches (longitudinal) and with more general and varied samples is emphasised.

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Early career researchers' identity: A qualitative review

Mula

Rodríguez

Segovia

2021

Higher Education Quarterly

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Borderlands: traversing spaces between art making and research

MacDonald

Moss

2015

Qualitative Research Journal

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a picture of the relationship the researchers perceive between the art and research practices, unravelling the ways the authors shape and inform enactment of a purposeful nexus between art making and research. Design/methodology/approach – A hybridised methodology is adopted, where methods integral to narrative inquiry and a/r/tography are drawn together to generate a series of “pictures” of the interplay between research and artistry. Through exploration of critical events, creative prose and artefacts, the paper unfolds the parallels perceived and tensions encountered between the approaches to making art and conducting research. Findings – Borders can create a sense of calm and safety in allowing us to organise and contain information or matter, but they are also provocative in their potential to be crossed. Through this work, the authors chart the borders of the art making and research, and how, why and when these borders might be traversed to augment the integrity of both practices. In unfolding and examining the experiences and the perceptions thereof, the authors articulate ways in which the authors find arts practice to enrich and inhibit the research, and vice versa. Originality/value – Of particular value in this paper is the way in which the authors not only tell of the experiences as artists and researchers, but also show these experiences through a/r/tographic methods. As such this paper presents an approach to research that is generative, suggesting rather than concluding and challenging rather than resolving, and ultimately offering multiple avenues for artistic and analytic insight.

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Defining Professional Self: Teacher Educator Perspectives of the Pre-ECR Journey.

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Early career researchers' identity: A qualitative review

Early career researchers' identity: A qualitative review

Borderlands: traversing spaces between art making and research

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