Precarious academic citizens: Early Career Teachers' experiences and implications for the academy
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The fragmentation of academic work and its uneven distribution among academic staff have produced particular challenges for new entrants to teaching in Higher Education, Early Career Teachers [ECTs].In this paper, documentary analysis of the narratives of fourteen ECTs, who worked across six different continents, was undertaken.The findings highlight the diverse forms of precarity that ECTs face, which cut across migratory, identitarian, economic, and ideological dimensions.It discusses ECTs' reflections on their expectations of teaching and their adaptation to the demands of neoliberal Higher Education.Drawing from their narratives and Sevil Sümer's theories of differentiated academic citizenship, ECTs are recognised as 'precarious academic citizens'.This has important implications for revealing the unique circumstances of this group, thereby opening further questions as regards their mentoring and support to enable them to be situated more equally as citizens of the academy.
Source: Teaching in Higher Education
Authors: Jody Crutchley, Zaki Nahaboo, Namrata Rao
Institutions: Liverpool Hope University, Birmingham City University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4391160610