Exploring the Salutogenic University: Searching for the Triple Point for the Becoming-Caring-Teacher Through Collaborative Cartography

Abstract

This paper offers a perspective on ‘care’ as a component in the identity of successful university teachers. Three key lines of flight within this assemblage (care, pedagogic health, and salutogenesis) are examined here. In combination, they may offer a response to hegemonic neoliberal discourses that typically divert academics from enacting their professional values. A ‘triple point’ is hypothesised, at which the three lines would be found to co-exist, without border or barriers.

No More Nead Fugues: Singing the Praises of Problem-Based Learning in a Minor Agential Realist Key Slightly Out of Tune

“…This pressure entails that most universities today are governed according to a corporate logic characterized by a firm focus on competition, consumerism, and commodification. Implementing initiatives based on neoliberal ideas has resulted in a hollowing out of the mission of higher education in general while promoting impoverished and instrumental notions of teaching and learning (Kinchin et al, 2021).…”