ERIC Number: EJ1439693
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-144X
EISSN: EISSN-1470-1324
The Precarious Academic: Professional Development and Academic Identity in the Neoliberal University
International Journal for Academic Development, v29 n3 p308-321 2024
Academics are constantly undergoing identity shifts in response to globalisation, marketisation and the impact of technology on academic work. This study investigates the impact of a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (GCHE) on academic identity development in an Australian University. GCHE graduates and their educators were interviewed to examine whether such extended and reflective professional development might support the negotiation of complex identity shifts. Findings indicated that academic identity development was enabled through this professional development by re-engaging individual academics in the diverse, traditional components of teaching, research and administration, working against the neoliberal trend of role-compartmentalisation for efficiency.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Professional Identity, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Certification, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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