- Title
- Reimagining academic identities in response to research demands at Universities of Technology
- Creator
- Gumbi, Thobani, McKenna, Sioux
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185897
- Identifier
- vital:44446
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v8i1.234"
- Description
- In the last volume of this journal, Garraway and Winberg called for a reimagination of Universities of Technology (UoT) within the South African higher education system. This article continues that conversation by looking at the implications that the formation of the UoT had for academics’ identities. Technikon lecturers’ identities were closely tied to workplace expertise, but demands for research in UoTs have changed this. A social realist analysis of interviews with fifteen academics at three UoTs finds that research remains a contested issue. Interviewees understood research to take the form of acquiring postgraduate qualifications, rather than as an ongoing activity tied to their identities. Echoing Garraway and Winberg’s study, the bureaucratic nature of the institutional culture was referred to as a constraint. There was also a view that for this programme, Dental Technology, a demand for research was needed from industry if this was to be a valued aspect of academics’ identities.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (15 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Sabinet
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, Gumbi, T. and McKenna, S., 2020. Reimagining academic identities in response to research demands at Universities of Technology. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 8(1), pp.96-110, Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning volume 8 number 1 p. 96 2020 2310-7103
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- All journal content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. CC BY ND 4.0
- Rights
- Open Access
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