Changing Identities in Higher Education: Voicing Perspectives

In this timely and innovative book scholars from Europe, the UK, North America and Australia, explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both on their research and scholarly interests, and their work experiences. Taking the form of a debate, Changing Identities in Higher Education helps to widen the contemporary space for debates on the future of higher education itself. The book is split into three parts: part one presents a set of essays each on a set of identities within higher education (academic, student, administrative/managerial and educational developers). part two includes responses to Part one from authors speaking from their own professional and scholarly identity perspective part three illustrates perspectives on the identities of students, provided by students themselves. With its original, dialogic form and varied content, this book is of interest to all those concerned in current debates about the state and nature ofhigher education today and those interested in questions of identity. It makes especially useful reading for students of higher education, lecturers in training, academics and managers alike.

Introduction / Roberto Di Napoli and Ronald Barnett — Preamble : knowledge identities / Marilyn Strathern — pt. 1. Perspectives — Being an academic today / Peter Taylor — Have students got a voice? / Denise Batchelor — Identities of academic developers : critical friends in the academy? / Gunnar Handal — Beyond administration and management : changing professional identities in UK higher education / Celia Whitchurch — pt. II. Responses — The myth of a golden age? : reflections from a vice-chancellor / Robert G. Burgess — Scenes in a university : performing academic identities in shifting contexts / Laura Miller — The question of identity : negotiating roles and voices in evolving academic systems / Lynn McAlpine, Marian Jazvac-Martek, and Allison Gonsalves — Academic identities and institutional change / Gerard Delanty — Academic development : identity and paradox / Ray Land — The role of professional associations in the formation of professional identity : the US experience / Victor Borden — pt. III. The students' views — A crisis in identity : the view of a postgraduate student of higher education / Susan Lapworth — Being an undergraduate student in the twenty-first century / Alison Ahearn, Oliver Broadbent, John Collins, and Eirini Spentza — Postscript : academic identities and the story of institutions / David Watson — Coda : identity and voice in higher education : making connections / Ronald Barnett and Roberto Di Napoli.