Writing for publication group: professional development situated in the interstices of academia and performativity |
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Authors: | Vicente Reyes Yvonne Masters Deidre Clary Elisabeth C. Betlem Marguerite A. Jones Jennifer Charteris |
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Affiliation: | School of Education, University of New England, Armidale, Australia |
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Abstract: | This article features nine ‘narratives of experience’ illustrative of academics engaged in an alternative Professional Development (PD) activity, referred to as Writing for Publication, in a regional Australian university. Each narrative adopts a critical stance to academic practice situated in what Ball defines as a ‘culture of performativity’ perpetuated by a ‘global neoliberal environment’. Contrary to professional development built primarily around sporadic content-provision and credential-based activities, Writing for Publication represents an alternative approach to professional development, a loose-coupling model, that gives validation to academics engaged in navigating dominant neoliberal discourses driving higher education filtered through the interstices or sites for identity-creation, agency formation and emerging communities of practice. |
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Keywords: | Performativity identity agency communities of practice reflective practice |
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