No Other Choices but Involution: Understanding Chinese Young Academics in the Tenure Track System

Autor/in	Si, Jinghui
Titel	No Other Choices but Involution: Understanding Chinese Young Academics in the Tenure Track System
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 45 (2023) 1, S.53-67 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Si, Jinghui)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-080X
DOI	10.1080/1360080X.2022.2115332
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Faculty; Tenure; Competition; Faculty Promotion; Policy Analysis; Teacher Attitudes; Contracts; Governance; Career Development; College Administration; Neoliberalism; Efficiency; Productivity; Faculty Recruitment; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fakultät; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Wettkampf; Politikfeldanalyse; Lehrerverhalten; Vertrag; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Berufsentwicklung; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Produktivität
Abstract	Based on an analysis of policy documents, questionnaires and interviews, the paper discusses the experiences of Chinese young academics on tenure-track contracts. Findings suggest that young academics perceive tenure as a managerial solution to governance reform. Meanwhile, a population-resource imbalance and the uncertainty in career progression interactively and collectively create an involuted culture where overwork is normalised for self-adaptation. While young academics are experiencing insecurity and anxiety, the study found that they adopt a wide range of strategies to actively adapt into the context. Drawing on the competitive nature, the tenure system is interpreted as both a managerial approach and a training mechanism. This competitiveness and its related precariousness seem to remain, however, uncharted in social perception. An analysis of these issues illuminates tensions and conflicts in the implementation of the tenure-track system in the Chinese context, which have important implications for future managerial policies and practices. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01