Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university

Manathunga, Catherine; Selkrig, Mark; Sadler, Kirsten; Keamy, Kim

doi:10.1080/07294360.2017.1289157

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“…Other formslike exhibitions, art or digital productionsmay remain relatively specialist in their audience but seek the possibilities allowed by new representational modes. Perhaps most tellingly, work by academics critiquing the industry often engage with creative formspoetry, cartoons, drawings, life-writing or rhyme (see several examples in Black and Garvis, 2018;Gill, 2009;Charteris et al, 2016;Gannon and Gonick, 2019;Henderson, Honan and Loch, 2016;Manathunga et al, 2017). Creative writing is situated here as an alternative to traditional academic writing, where the passion of the academic (restrained by the neo-liberal academy) is allowed to emerge.…”

Section: Creativity and Joymentioning

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Academic Emotions

Barclay

2021

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The University is an institution that disciplines the academic self. As such it produces both a particular emotional culture and, at times, the emotional suffering of those who find such disciplinary practices discomforting. Drawing on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics, this Element explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower. Using methodologies from the History of Emotion, it seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between the institution, emotion and the self.

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Barclay

2021

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“…In this paper, we particularly focus on the first research question as we have written in detail elsewhere about our findings about the participatory dimension to our arts-informed methods (Manathunga et al 2017;Sadler et al 2017).…”

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2020

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Research is at the core of universities' raison d'être and is an integral aspect of academic work, yet the ever-changing parameters around research are problematic. While studies have examined changes brought about through research assessment exercises and issues of academic identity in the twenty-first century, fewer studies have used arts-related research methods to engage with academics' experiences of these changes. This article draws upon visual and textual material generated by academics at an Australian university to investigate how academic researchers engage with research in the current milieu. This research offers an aesthetic mode of interruption and resistance to consider the emotional labour, work and energy involved in doing research that cannot be captured through neoliberal research measurement discourses. It deploys a post-Foucauldian governmentality theoretical framework to illustrate the ways in which academics [re]position multiple selves constantly to build more robust and critical responses to higher education reform.

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“…The emerging body of work on pedagogic frailty has demonstrated an underpinning complexity to the teaching environment that cannot be adequately represented by a simple metric. This prevents the concept of pedagogic frailty (or pedagogic health) to be subverted for political means and to prevent the disconnections between expectations and practice described by Manathunga et al [6].…”

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“…For example, new academics report dissonance between expectations of their role and actual teaching experiences [4]. In addition, competing agendas within universities seem to be adding to the pressures of work [5], while political changes in the system appear to be at odds with the values that drew many academics into academia in the first place [6]:…”

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The Salutogenic Management of Pedagogic Frailty: A Case of Educational Theory Development Using Concept Mapping

Kinchin

2019

Education Sciences

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This paper explores the development of educational theory (pedagogic frailty) that has emerged through the application of concept maps to understand teachers’ conceptions of their roles within the complex higher education environment. Within this conceptual paper, pedagogic frailty is reinterpreted using the lens offered by the concept of salutogenesis to place the model in a more positive frame that can offer greater utility for university managers. This development parallels changes in the consideration of mental health literacy (MHL) across university campuses and avoids misapplication of a deficit model to the professional enhancement of teaching quality. For a detailed explication of this wider perspective of pedagogic health literacy (PHL), the connections with related and supporting concepts need to be explained. These include ‘assets’, ‘wellness’ and a ‘sense of coherence’. Links between these concepts are introduced here. This reframing of the model has used concept mapping to explore the relationship between two complex ideas—pedagogic frailty and salutogenesis. It emphasizes pedagogic health as a continuum operating between frailty and resilience. Brief implications for academic development are included.

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Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university

Cited by 30 publications

References 36 publications

Academic Emotions

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Research is…making the emotional dimensions of academics’ research visible

The Salutogenic Management of Pedagogic Frailty: A Case of Educational Theory Development Using Concept Mapping

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