Betwixt and Between: Academic Women in Transition

Autor/inn/en	Bosetti, Lynn; Kawalilak, Colleen; Patterson, Peggy
Titel	Betwixt and Between: Academic Women in Transition
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 38 (2008) 2, S.95-115 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0316-1218
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; School Culture; Females; College Faculty; Quality of Working Life; Ethnography; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Interprofessional Relationship; Vertical Organization; Professional Personnel; Identification; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Weibliches Geschlecht; Fakultät; Arbeitsqualität; Ethnografie; Personalbestand; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Kanada
Abstract	University culture is increasingly being influenced by globalization, competition, the commercialization of research, and external demands for accountability. Corporate managerial practices that value individualism and productivity bump up against more democratic and collaborative practices inherent in the traditional academic culture and governance. Tensions result as faculty members are left on their own to make sense of the shifting political, economic and social landscape of higher education and to understand the implications for their professional identity within their Faculty. In an unstable institutional culture that lacks rules or mechanisms to shepherd faculty through this process, individuals can feel anxious, confused or incompetent as they negotiate the contradictions in their professional lives and deal with issues of power and resistance. Grounded in their own experiences of liminality, this paper uses an autoethnographic approach to explore and describe the experiences of three academic women "betwixt and between" their senior management positions, taking up positions as academic members of a Faculty, and the strategies they used to support each other, to reconstruct their professional identities and to understand the norms of the Faculty culture. The paper speaks to the importance of post-heroic forms of leadership, dialogue and collaborative communities that contribute to the creation of a culture in which faculty members can flourish. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. P.O. Box 34091, RPO Fort Richmond, Winnipeg, MB R3T 5T5, Canada. Tel: 204-474-6404; Fax: 204-474-7561; e-mail: csshe@cc.umanitoba.ca; Web site: http://ss.ucalgary.ca/csshe/en/publications/the-canadian-journal-higher-education
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10