Book chapter
Introduction: The timescapes of higher education
The Timescapes of Teaching in Higher Education, pp.1-6
Routledge
2023
Abstract
The discourses of 'time' and 'change' have received little interrogation in the field of teaching in higher education and yet both discourses arguably carry profound power in relation to our pedagogical imaginations, practices, experiences and identities. Contemporary higher education is often characterised by a precarious uncertainty, increasingly driven by strong narratives of anticipated futures. Anticipated change in the present and the future is projected onto the institutional and individual investments, risks, promises and possibilities that higher education presents at multiple levels and in a range of contexts. However, the inequalities that underpin different future-oriented investments in higher education are often made invisible by the logic of making the 'right' (calculated and rational) choices and 'effectively' managing time and change in the present (which plays out differently in different contexts). Despite the centrality of time in the (re)framing and restructuring of an imagined contemporary higher education landscape, there has been limited consideration given to conceptualising time. The dearth of research on higher education that foregrounds questions of time tends in itself to assist in the taken-for-granted 'business-as-usual' or TINA (there is no alternative) effect, reproducing particular spatio-temporal structures, practices, embodiments and investments (Lingard and Thompson 2017). This special issue theorises, critiques and extends concepts and discourses of time to examine change and innovation in higher education, re/imaginings of past and future and the emergent and changing forms of pedagogical practice and experience being generated in particular contexts.
Details
- Title
- Introduction: The timescapes of higher education
- Authors
- Penny Jane Burke (Author) - University of Newcastle AustraliaCatherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Contributors
- Penny Jane Burke (Editor) - University of Newcastle AustraliaCatherine Manathunga (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Additional notes
- The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Teaching in Higher Education, volume 25, issue 6 (2020).
- Publication details
- The Timescapes of Teaching in Higher Education, pp.1-6
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003380290-1; 10.4324/9781003380290
- ISBN
- 9781003380290
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99720257502621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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