Foundational academic development: building collegiality across divides?

Title
Foundational academic development: building collegiality across divides?
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Clarke, Catherine Therese
Reid, Jacqueline
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-3818
Email: jreid3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jreid3
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/1360144X.2012.728529
UNE publication id
une:13943
Abstract
There is limited research into the effectiveness of non-accredited foundational courses for new academic staff. An ongoing issue is that of attention and anxiety overload in the critical first period of employment when the challenges of establishing oneself in a new collegial environment are most acute. Approaches to addressing this issue may be experienced as imposition by academic departments and new academics, while academic development staff may feel that they barely have time to 'parachute in' with survival strategies that are often at best highly generalised and at worst counter to best practice. In the present study, new academics were interviewed to gain insight into their experiences. A foundational academic programme is proposed that helps new academics cope with the challenges they face in the early stages of their employment. With this research, another question for further investigation arises: how can foundation programmes work across 'structural divides' of university departmentalism?
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Citation
International Journal for Academic Development, 18(4), p. 318-330
ISSN
1470-1324
1360-144X
Start page
318
End page
330

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