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Being Critical: An Account of an Early Career Academic Working within and against Neoliberalism
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Sport, Education and Society . 2017 22(1):58-72. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- In 2014 I attended a symposium concerning Early Career Academics (ECAs) in the field of physical education and sport pedagogy. I was struck by the dominance of a particular theme at that symposium--that is, how to obtain a position and survive in academia. The aim of this paper is to use an inciting moment that occurred at this symposium as a means to confront some of the broader issues that I thought were at stake. Specifically I seek to interrogate the possible consequences of thinking about ECAs and academia in neoliberal terms, for the future of the field--a field that has a strong critical tradition. To this end I utilise autoethnographic techniques to connect the personal to the cultural and attempt to describe and analyse my story of becoming and being a critical scholar of sport, in a neoliberal context.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1357-3322
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Sport, Education and Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1123545
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1236017