ERIC Number: EJ1046059
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 14
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Peer-Formativity: A Framework for Academic Writing
Murray, Rowena; Thow, Morag
Higher Education Research and Development, v33 n6 p1166-1179 2014
The system currently deployed to assess research outputs in higher education can influence what, how and for whom academics write; for some it may determine whether or not they write at all. This article offers a framework for negotiating this performative context--the writing meeting. This framework uses the established theoretical underpinning of motivational interviewing, which involves autonomy, self-determination, environmental factors and social support. A study showed that the framework helped academics negotiate performativity and re-connect their writing to their values. In this way, they could both privilege writing that was meaningful to them and meet personal and institutional targets. Writing meetings did this by developing writing-oriented peer relationships, defined in this article as peer-formativity. Using writing meetings, academics can submit for research assessment systems without surrendering to performativity.
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Meetings, Peer Relationship, Performance, Behavior, Models, College Faculty, Interviews, Values, Beliefs, Goal Orientation, Barriers, Personal Autonomy, Self Determination, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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