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

Title
Writing for publication group: professional development situated in the interstices of academia and performativity
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Reyes, Vicente
Masters, Yvonne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1120-7950
Email: ymasters@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ymasters
Clary, Deidre
Betlem, Elisabeth C
Jones, Marguerite A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9420-2495
Email: mjones46@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mjones46
Charteris, Jennifer
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-6730
Email: jcharte5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jcharte5
Kivunja, Charles
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3520-0745
Email: ckivunja@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ckivunja
Rizk, Nadya
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-7687
Email: nrizk3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nrizk3
Sigauke, Aaron
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5743-7076
Email: tsigauke@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tsigauke
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/14623943.2016.1169170
UNE publication id
une:19309
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.
Link
Citation
Reflective Practice, 17(4), p. 444-455
ISSN
1470-1103
1462-3943
Start page
444
End page
455

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