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This thoughtful volume challenges widely accepted, traditionalist scientific notions of 'the academic' - prevalent in higher education institutions globally - in order to promote best practice, and redefine the field as accessible, inclusive, and forward thinking.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Gamification of personal learning trajectories 3. Unruly thought: Valuing and supporting academics who manage mental health issues 4. Whose knowledge counts? The academic, academic knowledge and epistemic justice 5. Encouraging teachers and learning support assistants (LSAs) to see themselves as researchers 6. Truth in a time of untruth: The academic as public educator 7. Cross-cultural doctoral PhD-supervision as transformative academic practice 8. Wrighting an academic life as a practitioner researcher: Constructing knowledge on the home front, at the university, throughout the Americas, and in our global community 9. The cut: Women and the practice of female genital mutilation in Kuria, Kenya 10. Developing teacher professionalism in an era of neo-liberalism 11. Total nursing: Reclaiming nursing for the patient 12. Developing new research networks in Latvia 13. Afterword
About the author
Jean McNiff is Professor Emerita of Educational Research at York St John University, UK.
Summary
This thoughtful volume challenges widely accepted, traditionalist scientific notions of ‘the academic’ – prevalent in higher education institutions globally – in order to promote best practice, and redefine the field as accessible, inclusive, and forward thinking.
