Reyes, Vicente

Masters, Yvonne

Clary, Deidre

Betlem, Elisabeth C

Jones, Marguerite A

Charteris, Jennifer

Kivunja, Charles

Rizk, Nadya

Sigauke, Aaron

2016

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.

Reflective Practice, 17(4), p. 444-455

1470-1103

1462-3943

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19111

en

Routledge

Writing for publication group: professional development situated in the interstices of academia and performativity

Journal Article

Publication