Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines

Walker, Amelia; Wain, Debra; Black, Alison L; Spasovska, Elena

doi:10.1080/14790726.2022.2050265

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“…These changes have been inspired through activism, but also through significant scholarship (c.f. Walker et al, 2022). At the nexus of activism and scholarship is where we see students being able to bring their knowledge, understandings and ways of being to classroom learning and teaching.…”

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Harnessing Empty Institutional Priorities: Developing Radical Student Agency Through University Teaching and Learning for Revolutionary Transformation

2023

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In a rapidly shifting global landscape marked by catastrophic change, instability and precarity, and misguided promises from the political apparatus, we have arrived at a dire time for higher education. It is in this moment that we dwell on the possibility and opportunity for the academic worker, student and community member to unite and challenge the systems and structures which perpetuate the status quo. Drawing on Gramsci's stratified conception of civil society and political society, we advance a praxiological activism for higher education teaching and learning that draws on elements of partnership, decolonisation and epistemological pluralism. We advance that through harnessing institutional priorities which are often proposed in the name of meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), we may have the opportunity to deeply challenge and transform the status quo through higher education. Drawing on examples of Student Partnership and Student Voice, and considering justice for First Nations, decolonising efforts, LGBTQI+ rights and other structural transformations to education, we propose a way towards new radical praxis. Drawing on our lived experience, conversations with community, students and staff, and our own reflective capacity building, we argue for a new age of radical agency. We also challenge dominant narratives which divide and position students in negative relation to the higher education worker, even when these narratives are perpetuated by the institution itself, in order to create space for a unified, radical and transformative way forward in the higher education sector.

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Harnessing Empty Institutional Priorities: Developing Radical Student Agency Through University Teaching and Learning for Revolutionary Transformation

2023

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“…Recent scholarship has focussed on the public role of the university sector, from its position as a democratic space (Brennan, 2010;Evans et al, 2019;Tapanila et al, 2020), to the role of academics as public intellectuals and stewards of robust thought and progressive thinking (Benson & Boyd, 2015;Fraser & Taylor, 2016;Giroux, 2014). However, the role of the university is frequently undermined, or usurped, by alternative agendas under ailing capitalist structures (Giroux, 2014) and staff under these transformed structures are left reeling after continued erosion of the fundamental purpose of their institutions, arcane changes to metrics which transform scholarship, and increasingly troubling employment conditions (Cornelius-Bell & Bell, 2021;Rogers & Swain, 2021;Rogers et al, 2020;Walker et al, 2022).…”

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Beyond ‘Aware and Paralysed’: Governance, Research and Leadership at the Nexus of Academic Development and Corporate Universities

2022

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The corporatisation of the higher education institution poses challenges for relational humanconnected academic development. The academic developer is caught between corporate structures and narratives which conditions inaction and an inevitable professionalisation of their portfolio. This article argues that without supporting faculty agency the role is still not fully realised. It highlights how the corporate university conditions staff and students and reasserts student/staff partnership as a conduit to reposition the institution and its governance for democratic society. Through a novel synthesis of research literature, and theoretical positioning, new ways for academic developers to 'see' their work and reassert ownership and hope are suggested.

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Green encounters: critically creative inter/actions with-and-in ecologies of crisis

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Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Harnessing Empty Institutional Priorities: Developing Radical Student Agency Through University Teaching and Learning for Revolutionary Transformation

Harnessing Empty Institutional Priorities: Developing Radical Student Agency Through University Teaching and Learning for Revolutionary Transformation

Beyond ‘Aware and Paralysed’: Governance, Research and Leadership at the Nexus of Academic Development and Corporate Universities

Green encounters: critically creative inter/actions with-and-in ecologies of crisis

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