Writing for publication group: professional development situated in the interstices of academia and performativity. Issue 4 (3rd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Reyes, Vicente; Masters, Yvonne; Clary, Deidre; Betlem, Elisabeth C.; Jones, Marguerite A.; Charteris, Jennifer; Kivunja, Charles; Rizk, Nadya; Sigauke, Aaron
• Is Part Of: Reflective practice. Volume 17:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 444
• Page End: 455
• Publication Date: 2016-07-03
• Subjects: Performativity -- identity -- agency -- communities of practice -- reflective practice; Professions -- Periodicals; Reflection (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; Thought and thinking -- Periodicals; Self-knowledge, Theory of -- Periodicals; Career development -- Periodicals; 370.15
• DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2016.1169170
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1462-3943

Abstract

Abstract: This article features nine 'narratives of experience' illustrative of academics engaged in an alternative Professional Development (PD) activity, referred to as Writing for Publication, in a regional Australian university. Each narrative adopts a critical stance to academic practice situated in what Ball defines as a 'culture of performativity' perpetuated by a 'global neoliberal environment'. Contrary to professional development built primarily around sporadic content-provision and credential-based activities, Writing for Publication represents an alternative approach to professional development, a loose-coupling model, that gives validation to academics engaged in navigating dominant neoliberal discourses driving higher education filtered through the interstices or sites for identity-creation, agency formation and emerging communities of practice.