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  • Developing identity and agency as an early career academic: lessons from Alice

    Author(s)
    Monk, Sue
    Mckay, Loraine
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McKay, Loraine M.
    Monk, Sue L.
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    This paper draws on Lewis Carroll’s character of Alice as a metaphor for interrogating identity construction and agency amongst early career academics, a process which can seem like Alice’s pursuit of the White Rabbit in a strange land. Keeping in mind the effects of neoliberalism on the tertiary sector, we recognise the centrality of personal lives in decision-making about academic careers and the shaping of professional identities. We also foreground how communities of practice not only build agency amongst ECAs but can also be supported by academic developers.This paper draws on Lewis Carroll’s character of Alice as a metaphor for interrogating identity construction and agency amongst early career academics, a process which can seem like Alice’s pursuit of the White Rabbit in a strange land. Keeping in mind the effects of neoliberalism on the tertiary sector, we recognise the centrality of personal lives in decision-making about academic careers and the shaping of professional identities. We also foreground how communities of practice not only build agency amongst ECAs but can also be supported by academic developers.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal for Academic Development
    Volume
    22
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2017.1306532
    Subject
    Education Systems not elsewhere classified
    Education Systems
    Specialist Studies in Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/345199
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