Constructing academic identity in the European higher education space: Experiences of early career educational researchers

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-268
Author(s):  
Sanja Djerasimovic ◽  
Marialuisa Villani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Professional Identification ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
European Higher Education

This exploratory paper presents insights from a qualitative interview-based study of the academic identity-building among a group of early career researchers working in the field of education across the European higher education space. Set against a policy background framed by the initiatives in European higher education and research policy, geared towards a production of a mobile, entrepreneurial researcher in pursuit of ‘valuable’ knowledge, the respondents’ narratives reveal individual complexity, but also emerging patterns of professional identification. We identify the traditional academic values of creating and sharing knowledge validated by an epistemic community, and pursuing autonomy and collegiality in research, as still dominant, however, find these interacting with the demonstration of a strong proactive, entrepreneurial spirit, and a lack of institutional attachment. The narratives indicate the availability of supportive, encouraging communities as being of high significance, and contest the notions of Europeanisation and the utility of geographic mobility in researchers’ identities. The paper discusses different types of academic identification driven by value orientation and social attachment that emerged from the early career researchers’ interviews, alongside pervasive issues around mobility raised in most narratives, and concludes with suggestions for further study.

Linguists and language workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Veronika Koller
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Academic Language ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Conversational Interaction ◽  
Interview Situation ◽  
Academic Interests

In this paper, I address two connected topics: firstly, the relationships between linguists working in academia and language professionals, such as communication managers and consultants, in other sectors; and secondly, how a strong emphasis on knowledge exchange and impact in British higher education policy has led to increased collaboration between academic and non-academic language workers, but also to a realignment of traditional academic values with the interests of practitioners. The investigation is partly based on published reflections – mostly by linguists – on collaborating with (language) professionals in other sectors, and partly on insights from 13 interviews with language workers in consulting, communications and campaigning. The interviews are manually analysed for thematic categories and, where relevant, for pragmatic meanings in the context of the interview situation and conversational interaction. Findings suggest conflicts around registers and timescales, along with concerns over data and the relevance of academic interests. Crucially, language professionals show little concern about collaborating with academics, leading to an imbalance in interests. I supplement the evidence with personal observations on the opportunities and obstacles that are present when straddling academic and non-academic work, as well as with a discussion of how a unidirectional realignment of values changes the nature of academic work.

scholarly journals Sistem informasi nilai akademik mahasiswa menggunakan teknik json dan nfc

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Arif Harbani ◽  
Ari Fajrianto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Message Format

Higher education as an institution engaged in the field of science can take advantage of technological developments. One of them is in terms of flexibility and efficiency of students in accessing the data they need related to academic activities in higher education such as student value information. This study aims to make it easy for students to be able to access value information easily. The development model used in this study is a prototype by making an application using NFC and JSON technology as a message format. This research was conducted at STIKOM Binaniaga Bogor with 60 students as samples of application trial subjects. The results of the analysis showed 85.63% of the level of appropriateness of the application, it shows with NFC technology and the application can facilitate students in getting information on student academic values.

Undergraduate Peer Mentoring: An Investigation into Processes, Activities and Outcomes

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ros Hill ◽  
Peter Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Transition To University ◽  
Unique Part

Peer mentoring of undergraduates is increasingly being used in higher education to reduce first year attrition by aiding transition to university. We propose that peer mentoring may also be a means of transmitting the values and ethics which reflect academic and personal integrity and underpin graduate and professional identity. In a qualitative study, we examined students' expectations and subsequent experience of a psychology undergraduate pilot mentoring scheme, together with the process and content. Mentors and mentees felt that mentors had a unique part to play in aiding transition to university. Mentors' advice reflected implicit academic values rather than strategic short cuts and mentoring cued reflection on their own development. The implications for encouraging student participation in mentoring schemes are discussed.

scholarly journals Academic and Corporate Cultures in Modern University (A Case Study of Armenia and Belarus)

wisdom ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Maria ZASLAVSKAYA ◽  
Larissa TITARENKO ◽  
Pargev AVETISYAN
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Institutional Autonomy ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Market Cultures ◽  
Higher Education Market ◽  
The University

Any reforms of modern education in the context of the Bologna principles somehow connected with the fundamental academic values and freedoms that guarantee institutional autonomy and social integrity of the universities. At the same time, post-soviet transformations of the higher education systems (HESs) often assume the introduction of the market-oriented approaches to meet the economic challenges that may contradict the traditional academic culture. On the basis of research data gleaned mainly from expert interviews in framework of case study in Armenia and Belarus, the authors analyze the ongoing transformations in HES with a focus on the features of implementation of academic freedoms in the context of existing contradiction between the new tendencies in higher education (market-oriented values, the entrepreneurial university model) and its classical humanistic model oriented to academic values, as well as to assess a possibility of coexisting academic and market cultures within the university.  The authors reveal the contradictory attitudes to assessment of the level of implementation of academic freedoms and to the possibility of combining academic freedoms with corporate culture in mentioned countries. Moreover, HESs needs the radical changes that would not destroy its fundamental culture and help to adjust universities to the global challenges.

The Role of Academic Values in Higher Education Convergence in Romania

2014 ◽  
pp. 168-182
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Seitz ◽  
Mariana Nicolae
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
European Union ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Market ◽  
The Bologna Process

The Bologna process set forth a transformation among institutions of higher education in Europe to increase student and staff mobility and to make the European Union more competitive in the world education market. Years of a centrally planned system, isolation from the international conversations, and developments of higher education values made the implementation of the Bologna process in Romania a difficult and controversial one. This chapter introduces a concept from the marketing literature regarding brand globalization that recognizes and supports an integral part of the Bologna process – that of academic values. Moreover, the discussion presents findings from an empirical study regarding leadership aspects in Romanian higher education. Recommendations are then provided as to the implementation of those values in Romania's higher education system.

Administrative Ethics in the Corporate College

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-155
Author(s):  
Howard A. Doughty
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Employee Relations ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teachers And Students

Changes in the mission, organization, and administration of colleges and universities reflect the transformation from elite to mass to universal access institutions. Curriculum, pedagogy, academic standards, funding, and employer-employee relations have been transformed. Administration has increasingly become management in name and in nature, as the labor process of educational work mimics that of private-sector corporations. Meanwhile, the social purposes of higher education have shifted toward explicitly economic aims and away from intellectual pursuits. Colleges and universities increasingly pursue methods of technical and practical control over human and non-human nature in the interest of prosperity and progress. Academic values of open inquiry are compromised and largely eclipsed by market demands for employability skills and commercially based research. This chapter urges an ongoing critique of higher education in late capitalism, institutional governance reform, and critical interrogation of education as teachers and students address imminent and potentially catastrophic economic, ecological, and ethical problems.

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