ERIC Number: EJ1123545
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1357-3322
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Being Critical: An Account of an Early Career Academic Working within and against Neoliberalism
McLachlan, Fiona
Sport, Education and Society, v22 n1 p58-72 2017
In 2014 I attended a symposium concerning Early Career Academics (ECAs) in the field of physical education and sport pedagogy. I was struck by the dominance of a particular theme at that symposium--that is, how to obtain a position and survive in academia. The aim of this paper is to use an inciting moment that occurred at this symposium as a means to confront some of the broader issues that I thought were at stake. Specifically I seek to interrogate the possible consequences of thinking about ECAs and academia in neoliberal terms, for the future of the field--a field that has a strong critical tradition. To this end I utilise autoethnographic techniques to connect the personal to the cultural and attempt to describe and analyse my story of becoming and being a critical scholar of sport, in a neoliberal context.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, College Faculty, Higher Education, Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Neoliberalism, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Professional Identity, Scholarship, Transformative Learning, Critical Theory, Educational Sociology, Politics of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; New Zealand
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