Tenure troubles and equity matters in Canadian academe

Enhancing our Understanding of Emancipatory Nursing

“…7,22 Transformative learning There are challenges to creating spaces in nursing for the deep critical reflective thinking needed for emancipatory work, given prevailing neoliberal forces in nursing education that are informed by corporate business models with priorities on efficiencies and short-term measurable outcomes. 9,23 A key aspect of emancipatory practice is to trouble the dominant representations of who and what are visible or invisible in nursing research 17 and how that prominence or hidden-ness plays out in terms of creating normative knowledge, values, and practices that limit nursing inquiry. Emancipatory practice challenges those complex dynamics of power, which structure, support, and maintain health and social inequities.…”

“…4 Tenure stream and graduate students continue to receive implicit and explicit messages about the legitimacy of this focus for nursing scholarship with pressures to avoid controversial issues such as gender that could limit their career directions and ability to publish in high-ranking journals. 4,5,[7][8][9] Although there certainly have been recent gains within the profession, the silence within nursing continues, despite the number of gay and lesbian nurses, and LGBT-focused inquiry remains on the margins of nursing research. 4 As Onken 10 remarked, heteronormative processes operate to maintain the status quo.…”

Opening up the Pandora's box of sustainability league tables of universities: a Kafkaesque perspective

“…Furthermore, such control narratives within universities could in fact compound any institutional inequities, promoted by neo-liberalism, as highlighted by Acker et al (2012) and Van den Brink & Benschop (2012). Put in another way, engagement and inclusion may be espoused but the institutional impact of such espoused narratives are disengagement and exclusion within universities due to the priorities placed on other league table narratives such as carbon management within an overarching espoused narrative of continuous improvement of league table position.…”

“Ma’am! You’re Being Randomly Checked”: A Music Education Terrorized

“…But my story cannot be the case in point: just because I was able to overcome the impediments to some extent does not mean that others in similar situations can and will. As a plethora of research shows, non-white female academics suffer the most within the official discourses of academia (Bradley et al 2017, Bergonzie et al 2016, Acker et al 2012, Boyd et al 2010, Berry et al 2007). What if I had not met the professors and advisors who had seen something in me as a graduate student applicant, who believed in me as a music educator and potential scholar who cares about our profession, notwithstanding my non-standard teaching experience?…”