'I'm not a real academic' : a career from industry to academe

Santoro, Ninetta and Snead, S (2013) 'I'm not a real academic' : a career from industry to academe. Journal of Further and Higher Education. ISSN 0309-877X (https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2011.645457)

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Abstract

Over the past thirty years universities have increasingly extended their offerings of vocationally oriented degrees and have recruited into academe, practitioners from the professions. This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated the experiences of 20 professionals-turned-academics in Australia; their expectations of academe and how they defined, resisted and took up the multiple and changing roles associated with academic work. Findings indicate that the majority experienced nostalgia for universities of the past which they imagined to be places of intellectual elitism and curiosity-driven research and scholarship. At the same time, they identified strongly as practitioners within their professional fields, were committed to field-oriented practical education and resisted taking up researcher identities, understanding ‘real’ research in narrowly defined terms. Our discussion of these findings highlights the tension between what is desired and what is real in academe and its impact on job performance and satisfaction for this group of academics.

ORCID iDs

Santoro, Ninetta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3357-3900 and Snead, S;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:42948
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    2013
    Published
    6 February 2012
    Published Online
    Notes:Dr. Ninetta Santoro is an Associate Professor of Education and the Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Her research engages with how teacher and academic identities are constructed and taken up within educational milieus, in particular, teacher education contexts. She has published in the areas of classroom practice, teacher education, language education and research methodology.
    Subjects:Education > Education (General)
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:20 Feb 2013 16:09
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 10:20
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/42948
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