Academic Friendship in Dark Times

Autor/inn/en	Enslin, Penny; Hedge, Nicki
Titel	Academic Friendship in Dark Times
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 14 (2019) 4, S.383-398 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2019.1660457
Schlagwörter	Friendship; Criticism; Vignettes; College Faculty; Work Environment; Performance Based Assessment; Trust (Psychology); Neoliberalism; Collegiality; Accountability; Moral Values; Ethics; Reflection; Teaching Methods; Learning Processes; Educational Change; Higher Education; Philosophy; Teacher Evaluation; Peer Relationship; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freundschaft; Kritik; Fakultät; Arbeitsmilieu; Leistungsermittlung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Kollegialität; Verantwortung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Ethik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Learning process; Lernprozess; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Philosophie; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Peer-Beziehungen; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Bringing philosophical work on friendship to bear on the growing body of critique about the state of the neoliberal academy, this paper defends academic friendship. Initially a vignette illustrates the key features of academic friendship and the multiple demands on academics to account for themselves in the neoliberal university. We locate academic friendship in the context of that neoliberal university before discussing managerialist threats to this relationship. We indicate how the performativity-driven working environment contrasts radically and unfavourably with some defining features of friendship. Academic friendship, we argue, can entail generative intellectual and moral activity and growth though trusting and honest reflection on research and scholarship, and teaching and learning. Contending that it may offer an antidote to aspects of the neoliberal academy, in our concluding section academic friendship is highlighted as both a defence and a means of resistance against the worst excesses of the university in dark times. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01