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Reimagining the Academy

ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care

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Editors:
  1. Alison L Black

    1. School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Australia

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  2. Rachael Dwyer

    1. School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Australia

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  • Explores narratives of women in academia
  • Channels research and writing into the exploration of the nature of transformation in the academy
  • Asks how the academy can better serve all voices

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
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  2. Reimagining the Academy: Conceptual, Theoretical, Philosophical, and Methodological Sparks

    • Rachael Dwyer, Alison L Black
    Pages 1-16

  3. Holding Space for Story, Struggle and Possibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Black Warrior Women Scholars Speak

      • Tracey Bunda, Kathryn Gilbey, ‘Mabokang Monnapula-Mapesela
      Pages 19-27

    3. My Journey of a Thousand Miles

      • ‘Mabokang Monnapula-Mapesela
      Pages 29-38

    4. How Does a Woman Find Her Voice and Not Lose Her Soul in Academia?

      • Ruth Behar
      Pages 39-51

  4. Building Caring Communities and Enacting an Ethics of Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Mentoring Beyond the Finite Games: Creating Time and Space for Connection, Collaboration and Friendship

      • Vicki Schriever, Sandra Elsom, Alison L Black
      Pages 55-77

    3. A Collective Feminist Ethics of Care with Talanoa: Embodied Time in the ShiFting Spaces of Women’s Academic Work

      • Katarina Tuinamuana, Joanne Yoo
      Pages 79-96

    4. Emotional Labour Pains: Rebirth of the Good Girl

      • Marguerite Westacott, Claire Green, Sandra Elsom
      Pages 97-117

    5. More than Tolerance: A Call to ShiFt the Ableist Academy Towards Equity

      • Melissa Cain, Melissa Fanshawe
      Pages 119-134

    6. Arts-Based Reflection for Care of Self and Others in the Academy: A Collaged Rhizomatic Journey

      • Marthy Watson, Georgina Barton
      Pages 135-155

    7. Slow Pedagogies and Care-Full , Deep Learning in Preservice Teacher Education

      • Joanne Ailwood, Margot Ford
      Pages 157-174

    8. Women Navigating the ‘Academic Olympics’: Achieving Activism Through Collaborative Autoethnography

      • Susanne Garvis, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Anne Keary, Tina Yngvesson
      Pages 175-193

    9. Envisioning Caring Communities in Initial Teacher Education

      • Madeleine Dobson, Samantha Owen
      Pages 195-217

    10. Writing, Playing, Transforming: A Collaborative Inquiry into Neoliberalism’s Effects on Academia, and the Scope for Changing the Game

      • Yuwei Gou, Corinna Di Niro, Elena Spasovska, Amelia Walker, Chloe Cannell, Rebekah Clarkson et al.
      Pages 219-238

  5. ShiFting, Renewing and Reimagining the Academy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. The In/Finite Game of Life: Playing in the Academy in the Face of Life and Death

      • Helen Grimmett, Rachel Forgasz
      Pages 241-258

    3. Beyond Survival: The ShiFt to Aesthetic Writing

      • Cecile Badenhorst, Heather McLeod
      Pages 259-281

    4. The Gift of Wit(h)nessing Transitional Moments Through a Contemplative Arts Co-inquiry

      • Susan Walsh, Barbara Bickel
      Pages 283-304
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About this book

This book explores the capacities and desires of academic women to reimagine and transform academic cultures. Embracing and championing feminist scholarship, the research presented by the authors in this collection holds space for a different way of being in academia and shifts the conversation toward a future that is hopeful, kind and inclusive. Through exploring lived experiences, building caring communities and enacting an ethics of care, the authors are reimagining the academy’s focus and purpose. The autoethnographic and arts-based research approaches employed throughout the book provide evocative conceptual content, which responds to the symbolic nature of transformation in the academy. This innovative volume will be of interest and value to feminist scholars, as well as those interested in disrupting and rejecting patriarchal academic structures.




Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Australia

    Alison L Black, Rachael Dwyer

About the editors

​Ali Black is a senior Lecturer and arts-based/narrative researcher in the School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research and scholarly work fosters connectedness, community, well-being, and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities.

Rachael Dwyer is a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research interests include teacher education, music and arts education, critical pedagogy, women/mothers in academia and narrative inquiry.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reimagining the Academy

  • Book Subtitle: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care

  • Editors: Alison L Black, Rachael Dwyer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75859-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75858-5Published: 20 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75861-5Published: 21 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75859-2Published: 19 November 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIV, 399

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Research Methods in Education, Sociology of Education, Feminism, Sociology of Education

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