Academic leadership roles and work life experiences: Improving quality by attending to professional identity

Marie-Louise Österlind; Britt-Marie Apelgren; Pam Denicolo

Abstract

This paper discusses academic leadership from a PCP- perspective. The proposed research is part of a planned project focusing on academic teacher-researcher-leader in Swedish higher education. Drawing on Kompf & Brown’s (2005) theories of teachers’ personal and professional ideas about the practice - superordinate constructs nexus, we aim to explore and gain a deeper understanding of their core identity (Denicolo, Long and Bradley-Cole 2016). This is related to being a good teacher-researcher-leader in the current politic-economic context of higher education: tensions between reforms based on managerial logic from the business world and the pedagogic processes informed by professional academic logic (Pettersen, 2015), have an impact on all aspects of the academic role.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	XIVth Biennial Conference of the European Personal Construct Association (EPCA) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 5th - 8th, 2018 - Duration: 1980-Jan-01 → …

Conference

Conference	XIVth Biennial Conference of the European Personal Construct Association (EPCA) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 5th - 8th, 2018
Period	80-01-01 → …

Swedish Standard Keywords

Educational Sciences (503)

Keywords

academic leadership
constructivism
higher education
pcp

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Academic leadership roles and work life experiences: Improving quality by attending to professional identity. / Österlind, Marie-Louise; Apelgren, Britt-Marie; Denicolo, Pam.
2018. Abstract from XIVth Biennial Conference of the European Personal Construct Association (EPCA) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 5th - 8th, 2018.

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