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Challenging Performative Fabrication: Seeking authenticity in academic development practice

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Pages 45-54 | Published online: 07 Jun 2007
 

Abstract

This paper explores tensions between individual desires to enact the work of academic development practice in ways that foster authenticity, and the pressure to fabricate proper identities in the service of the performative university. Through auto‐ethnographic inquiry, three academic developers together ask, “How are we and our practices true to who we are, to our colleagues and university, and to the purposes of higher education?” Our writing aims to encourage reflection on the moral and ethical dimensions of the work of academic development. Our discussion identifies particular individual and collective strategies of healing and transformation that will lead academics, and academic developers, toward a more authentic practice.

Cet article explore les tensions existant entre les désirs individuels de « pratiquer » le développement pédagogique de façon à susciter l’authenticité, et la pression visant à forger des identités propres au service de l’université performative. Par l’entremise d’une étude auto‐ethnographique, trois conseillers pédagogiques se sont posé la question : « Comment, nous et nos pratiques, sommes‐nous fidèles à nous‐mêmes, à nos collègues et à notre université, ou aux buts de l’enseignement supérieur ? ». Notre article vise à encourager la réflexion au sujet des dimensions morales et éthiques du travail de développement pédagogique. Notre discussion identifie des stratégies individuelles et collectives de réparation et de transformation qui mèneront les universitaires et les conseillers pédagogiques vers une pratique plus authentique.

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1. Challenging Academic Development (CAD) Collective mailing list—archives and subscription details available at http://mailman.ucc.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/itl‐cad

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