Academic life in the measured university : pleasures, paradoxes and politics /: pleasures, paradoxes and politics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tai Peseta, Simon Barrie, Jan McLean.
• Editors: Peseta, Tai; Barrie, Simon; McLean, Jan
• Contents: Introduction – Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics Tai Peseta, Simon Barrie and Jan McLean 1. Higher degree research by numbers: beyond the critiques of neo-liberalism Liam Grealy and Timothy Laurie 2. The paradox of collaboration: a moral continuum Bruce Macfarlane 3. Measures of success: cruel optimism and the paradox of academic women’s participation in Australian higher education Briony Lipton 4. Counting on demographic equity to transform institutional cultures at historically white South African universities? Masixole Booi, Louise Vincent and Sabrina Liccardo 5. The mismeasure of academic labour Angelika Papadopoulos 6. Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university Catherine Manathunga, Mark Selkrig, Kirsten Sadler and (Ron) Kim Keamy 7. Made to measure: early career academics in the Canadian university workplace Sandra Acker and Michelle Webber 8. Fear and loathing in the academy? The role of emotion in response to an impact agenda in the UK and Australia Jennifer Chubb, Richard Watermeyer and Paul Wakeling 9. Challenging a measured university from an indigenous perspective: placing ‘manaaki’ at the heart of our professional development programme Nell Buissink, Piki Diamond, Julia Hallas, Jennie Swann and Acushla Dee Sciascia 10. Measuring the ‘gift’: epistemological and ontological differences between the academy and Indigenous Australia Jonathan Bullen and Helen Flavell 11. Target-setting, early-career academic identities and the measurement culture of UK higher education Jan Smith 12. The missing measure? Academic identity and the induction process Jennie Billot and Virginia King 13. Lost souls? The demoralization of academic labour in the measured university Paul Sutton
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 378.00905; Education, Higher -- History -- 21st century; Universities and colleges -- Evaluation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429767456
• Related ISBNs: 9780429767463; 9780429767449; 9780429428593
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