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Zusatztext As universities evolve to accommodate increasingly market-driven agenda, this collection offers timely reassurance of the shared values and professional practices that unite colleagues from across European higher education systems. Amid reform, austerity and stratification, it is a pleasure to be reminded of what it means to be an academic. Informationen zum Autor Linda Evans is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, UK, and previously held professorial positions at the University of Leeds, UK, and the University of Warwick, UK. Jon Nixon was Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK. Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and its continuing aftermath accounts for many of these changes, but the diverse cultures and histories of different regions are also significant factors, influencing how institutions adapt and resist, and how identities are shaped. Academic Identities in Higher Education highlights the multiple influences acting upon academic practitioners and documents some of the ways in which they are positioning themselves in relation to these often competing pressures. At a time when higher education is undergoing huge structural and systemic change there is increasing uncertainty regarding the nature of academic identity. Traditional notions compete with new and emergent ones, which are still in the process of formation and articulation. Academic Identities in Higher Education explores this process of formation and articulation and addresses the question: what does it mean to be an academic in 21st century Europe? Vorwort This edited book provides critical insider accounts of the changing nature of academic identity across the national regions of Europe. Zusammenfassung Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and its continuing aftermath accounts for many of these changes, but the diverse cultures and histories of different regions are also significant factors, influencing how institutions adapt and resist, and how identities are shaped. Academic Identities in Higher Education highlights the multiple influences acting upon academic practitioners and documents some of the ways in which they are positioning themselves in relation to these often competing pressures. At a time when higher education is undergoing huge structural and systemic change there is increasing uncertainty regarding the nature of academic identity. Traditional notions compete with new and emergent ones, which are still in the process of formation and articulation. Academic Identities in Higher Education explores this process of formation and articulation and addresses the question: what does it mean to be an academic in 21st century Europe? Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Identities in transition - perspectives, trajectories and reformations, Jon Nixon (Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong) Part I: Frameworks and perspectives 1. The academic condition: Unstable structures, ambivalent narratives, dislocated identities, Niilo Kauppi (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France) 2. Autonomisation and individualisation: Ideational shifts in European higher education, Tero Erkkila (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Ossi Piironen (University of Helsinki, Finland) 3. Academic identity formation: Reframing the long shadow of Europe, Terri Seddon (Monash Universit...
