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Casualised academic staff and the lecturer-student relationship: Shame, (Im)permanence and (Il)legitimacy
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education. 41:539-554
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- This paper is based on findings from an email interview study with 20 academics (17 women, 3 men) in the UK on short-term, insecure or ‘casualised’ contracts. The paper focuses on their perceptions of the effect their contract status has on the lecturer/student relationship: particularly in regard to student perceptions of their legitimacy and status. Using a poststructuralist theoretical lens, we explore lecturers’ concerns or anxieties as to whether they may be interpreted as less legitimate than permanent staff; and the emotional labour involved in the work done to ‘cover’ for the difficulties that a lecturer’s contract status causes for the quality of their teaching content and organisation. We also explore the considerations of some participants to voluntarily ‘disclose’ their status to students and the possibilities of such acts as a form of resistance to dominant discourses of the legitimate academic.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
Higher education
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Self-concept
050301 education
Shame
Resistance (psychoanalysis)
Electronic mail
0506 political science
Education
Emotional labor
Pedagogy
Power structure
050602 political science & public administration
Sociology
business
0503 education
Legitimacy
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653346 and 01425692
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0cdc1b54a0c020841159e194fa2243b2