academic and professional identity

IDENTITY OF FE AND HE PROFESSIONALS

ICEBREAKER ACTIVITY When you start to think about

your identity what words come to mind?

How do you think others would describe you?

PERFORMATIVE IDENTITY Identities constructed in and through discourse

(Butler, 1999; Foucault, 1979)

WHAT MAKES UP YOUR IDENTITY?

WHO ARE YOU?

PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY‘While effective teaching is vital for student learning in HE, academics are not as prepared for their teaching careers as they are for their research’ (Pleschova, 2014)

Discuss…..

PROFESSIONALISATION OF TEACHING

‘Many current teaching and learning methods, ie widespread lecturing to students, relegate students to passivity, tend to focus on subject knowledge and thus are inadequate’ (Pleschova, 2014)

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS IN HE TEACHING

PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES

BEING IN TWO CAMPSPRACTICE

Very closely aligned with research outputsMore thorough practices need to enculturate sessional staff?

TEACHING

Teaching Research Nexus (Brew, 2003)Multiple roles that require identity work

THIRD SPACEBounded UnboundedCross boundaryBlended

Emergent territory between academic and professional domains

NARRATIVE INQUIRY

AUTOETHONOGRAPHY, PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND RESEARCHER AS SUBJECT

DATA SOURCES

REFLEXIVITY IN RESEARCH

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