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ERIC Number: EJ1023253
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0307-5079
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Marketing Time: Evolving Timescapes in Aacademia
Guzmán-Valenzuela, Carolina; Barnett, Ronald
Studies in Higher Education, v38 n8 p1120-1134 2013
In countries such as Chile in which a neoliberal economic approach is predominant, higher education systems are characterized by productivity, competition for resources and income generation, all of which have impact on academics' experiences of time. Through a qualitative approach in which 20 interviews and two focus groups were conducted, this study focuses on a public university in Chile and examines ways in which academics experience time. The results reveal a felt expansion and contraction of time and timeframes to which academics accord different levels of investment. A patterning of narratives of time can be glimpsed in which academics are trading slots of time: they surrender part of their time to service institutional demands in return for time spaces in which they can pursue their own academic interests. Accordingly, the concept of "time-markets" may be helpful in understanding the evolution of higher education systems in neoliberal environments more generally.
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile
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