professional identity;
professionalism;
higher education;
Kenya;
narrative;
agency;
D O I:
10.1080/13596748.2013.847232
中图分类号:
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号:
040101 ;
120403 ;
摘要:
This research builds on work carried out in England looking at how faculty negotiate their personal and professional identities. It focuses on a sample of full-time faculty in a private secular university in Kenya. Weekly time logs with follow-up individual semi-structured interviews were used as a basis for an examination on how faculty spend their time and cope with the dilemmas they face. The research probes the motivations and priorities of faculty and draws tentative conclusions regarding their professional identities. The picture emerges of a rapidly increasing workforce, very positive about teaching, facing the challenges of intensification of labour, conflicting priorities, outside pressures and a sense of lack of control over their professional lives. In contrast to the UK findings, what was most striking was the lack of dilemmas and agonising between competing claims on time that characterised the work of the UK lecturers. The Kenyan faculty appeared to approach tasks in a pragmatic way, with priority often given to family matters and a tendency to let things happen. Notions of professionalism appeared to be less well developed and appeared to point to compliance and acceptable standards of behaviour.
机构:
All St Cathedral Anglican Diocese Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
Princeton Theol Seminary, World Christian & Hist Relig, Princeton, NJ 08540 USAAll St Cathedral Anglican Diocese Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
机构:
Capital Normal Univ, CET Acad Programs, Chinese Studies Program, Beijing, Peoples R ChinaCapital Normal Univ, CET Acad Programs, Chinese Studies Program, Beijing, Peoples R China
机构:
Univ Technol Sydney, Fac Arts & Social Sci, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Univ Technol Sydney, Inst Sustainable Futures, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaUniv Technol Sydney, Fac Arts & Social Sci, Sydney, NSW, Australia
机构:
Univ Fed Jatai UFJ, Programa Posgrad Educ PPGE REJ, Jatai, Go, Brazil
CAPES, PNPD, Brasilia, DF, BrazilUniv Fed Jatai UFJ, Programa Posgrad Educ PPGE REJ, Jatai, Go, Brazil
da Costa, Vanderlei Balbino
Garcia, Alexandra
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Univ Estadual Estado Rio de Janeiro UERJ, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Univ Estado Rio De Janeiro, PPGEdu FFP, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Univ Estado Rio De Janeiro, PROPEd, Rio De Janeiro, BrazilUniv Fed Jatai UFJ, Programa Posgrad Educ PPGE REJ, Jatai, Go, Brazil
Garcia, Alexandra
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