Identity constructions and sensemaking in higher education – a case study of Danish higher education department heads

Degn, Lise

doi:10.1080/03075079.2014.881345

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“…who they are dealing with, or who they represent, and try to understand what the situation means to their identity and act on what is most appropriate (Weick, 1995). The work by Degn (2014Degn ( , 2018 about how department heads construct identity in the face of changing circumstances, showed that structural demands, institutional scripts, and personal cognitive frames resulted in identity dilemmas for these department heads, e.g. some show defiant compliance or express dissatisfaction, others hide their resistance to obtain legitimacy and recognition.…”

Section: Sensemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The Ties That Bind’: Indonesian Female Academic Leaders’ Agency and Constraints in Higher Education

Arquisola¹

2020

EUROPEAN J ED MANAGE

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Indonesia has achieved equal parity in access to education, income, and career opportunities. Yet in many parts of the country, female academic leaders are still highly under-represented in top academic boards. This study examines how fourteen (14) Indonesian female higher education academic leaders (FALs) enact identity salience and agency in performing their duties, while experiencing social control schemas or ‘triple binds’—exigencies of gender roles, unequal power-plays due to social status and positions, and lack of organizational resources and capital in higher education—in Indonesia, one of the world’s emerging economies still consolidating democracy and building necessary social, fiscal, and physical infrastructures. Taken as a whole, the study found the ‘triple binds’ as aggregate constraints for female leadership progression, driving female academic leaders to resist and rise above this discursive struggle and confrontation through sense-making, assertiveness, depth of conviction, a take-charge attitude, and the use of other tactical strategies like networking with key gatekeepers to obtain the resources they need. The study presents a framework of the triple binds that university leaders can use to assess constraints to academic leadership.</p>

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Section: Sensemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The Ties That Bind’: Indonesian Female Academic Leaders’ Agency and Constraints in Higher Education

Arquisola¹

2020

EUROPEAN J ED MANAGE

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“…Clearly, then, PhDs’ transition from university work to other sectors cannot be properly explained without understanding the context of Finnish academic culture (Niemi et al, 2011; Ylijoki and Henriksson, 2017; see also Degn, 2015). This is the point of departure for the present study.…”

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Theoretical, practical and hybrid ex-academics: Career transfer stories

Kuoppakangas

Suomi

Pekkola

et al. 2020

European Educational Research Journal

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The academic career stories and trajectories of PhD holders have been widely studied in the context of economic austerity and an oversupply of doctors. However, few studies have investigated career building among ex-academics and how a doctoral degree and university work might affect their career possibilities outside academia. This paper explores the trajectories of ex-academics: PhDs with university work experience who have left academia to pursue non-academic careers. Based on 40 qualitative interviews with ex-academics, their employers and senior university leaders, the study employs a narrative approach to construct five career stories: the Theoretical Endangered Nerd, the Practical Geek, the Chic Hybrid, the Pristine Novice and the Odd Elite. This varied picture of career sensemaking provides new insights into career building among ex-academics.

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“…A third broad theme found in the corpus of texts focuses on the question of faculty identities, taking up and inflecting conceptions of "what it means to be an academic" in higher education (Bennett et al, 2016, p.218). In recent years, a range of scholars have explored the ways in which higher education faculty understand and construct themselves and their roles (e.g., Fanghanel, 2012), often considering the extent to which traditional understandings of the professoriate are under pressure from increasing neoliberalization and managerialism (Degn, 2015;Sutton, 2015). The films examined thus enter interestingly into a conversation about the definition and contours of academic roles at a moment of uncertainty and contestation.…”

Section: Academic Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public pedagogy and representations of higher education in popular film: New ground for the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Johnstone

Marquis

2018

TLI

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Constructions of teaching, learning, and the university within popular culture can exert an important influence on public understandings of higher education, including those held by faculty and students. As such, they constitute a rich site of inquiry for the scholarship of teaching and learning. Drawing on the notion of film as 'public pedagogy,' this article analyses representations of higher education within 11 top grossing and/or critically acclaimed films released in 2014. We identify three broad themes across these texts-the purpose of higher education, relationships between students and professors, and the creation of academic identities-and consider the implications and functions of these representational patterns for teaching, learning, and SoTL. Particular attention is given to the difference between the framing of science and arts and humanities disciplines, and to how this might resonate with the contemporary 'crisis of the humanities.'

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Identity constructions and sensemaking in higher education – a case study of Danish higher education department heads

Cited by 37 publications

References 28 publications

‘The Ties That Bind’: Indonesian Female Academic Leaders’ Agency and Constraints in Higher Education

‘The Ties That Bind’: Indonesian Female Academic Leaders’ Agency and Constraints in Higher Education

Theoretical, practical and hybrid ex-academics: Career transfer stories

Public pedagogy and representations of higher education in popular film: New ground for the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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