Postdigital positionality: Developing powerful inclusive narratives for learning, teaching, research and policy in higher education, by Sarah Hayes, Leiden: Brill, 2021, 318 pp., USD52.00 (paperback), ISBN 13: 978-90-04-43025-9

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Petar Jandrić
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Research And Policy

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

Leaving Academia: The Shifting Terrain of Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (102) ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Lynne Segal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Student Debt ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Fault Lines

Leaving academia, this essay joins a steady chorus of reflection now thinking backwards over the last half century of extraordinary transformations in higher education. The industry is booming, more students than ever are entering universities, yet the academy is seen as increasingly in crisis. Staff workloads keep mounting, student debt soaring, and staff and student anxieties alike are multiplying, even as government underfunding, imposed managerialism and commercialisation threaten to reduce the underlying logic of higher education to market principles. In this context it is more urgent than ever to record the half century of struggle that opened up and enriched academic life, gradually ensuring the entry of hitherto excluded voices and topics into research and scholarship, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Drawing on my own involvement, I recall some of these always-incomplete attempts to challenge the fault-lines of intellectual life in the academy, knowing that we need always to cherish the value of teaching, research and learning, simply for its own sake.

scholarly journals Práticas e saberes no ensino público superior no Recôncavo baiano

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Francisca Helena Marques ◽  
Jorge Luiz Ribeiro de Vasconcelos ◽  
Solon de Albuquerque Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Research

In this article we will present three excerpts of the activities related to the Centro de Cultura, Linguagens e Tecnologias Aplicadas (CECULT/UFRB), through the performance of three professors of this Center (Francisca Helena Marques, Jorge Luiz Ribeiro de Vasconcelos and Solon de Albuquerque Mendes). All the activities have in common the concern for the process of bringing public higher education to the interior of the country and the insertion of knowledge from the rural environment, articulated through teaching, research and extension. It is noteworthy that CECULT has many students from rural communities in the municipalities of Recôncavo Baiano, and it is appropriate to deepen these practices and exchanges of knowledge that occur in the process of internalization of public higher education. We adopt a mixed methodological approach, involving aspects of experimental, bibliographical, phenomenological, qualitative, quantitative research. Regarding the results, we can observe more closely the profile of four students, and through this, build a more dialogic relationship between educators and students.

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