商品簡介
Contested Sites in Education explores faculty members’ struggle with the corporatization of their institution. Ragoonaden and her expert contributors offer insights into the impact of change on the sense of agency and the consequences on the personal and professional identities of seven academics. The book examines how faculty wrestles with the university research-intensive mandates and the challenge of fulfilling their formative mission--to develop intellectual and cultural resources to prepare themselves and their students for lives of significance and responsibility--while at the same time cleaving to the neoliberal agenda with its emphasis on productivity and accountability for research output, which significantly affects the culture and nature of the work of academics, particularly those not yet tenured. Eight chapters are: setting the path toward emancipatory practices; dwelling artfully in the academy; ideology, performativity, and the university; living and working in a global space; performativity in the academy; on the educational value of philosophical ethics; developing mindful teacher leader identities in higher education; academic identity within contested spaces of a university in transition. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Karen Ragoonaden is a faculty member of education at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. Her publications and research interests lie in the areas of scholarship on teaching and learning, French education, and diversity pedagogy. Her most recent articles focus on intercultural communication competence, critical pedagogy and selfstudy of teacher and teacher education practices.
