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Conceptualising the Academic Self

Beyond Traditional Practices

Victoria I. Ekpo, David Allan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2026
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-83708-245-2 (ISBN)
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Conceptualising the Academic Self offers insights with both theoretical and practical applications. It serves as a comprehensive guide for novice academics to seasoned educators and researchers, as well as institutional leaders and policy influencers, addressing the challenges of self-conceptualisation and self-formation.
Becoming an academic can be an overwhelming, if not a completely consuming, experience, and conceptualising this process is often fraught with a lack of understanding of both the process and the subsequent implications. Many academics struggle with the notion of who they are, despite believing that they are aware of who they want to be and where they are situated on their academic journey.


This edited collection draws on the experiences of early and mid-career academics, as well as leaders in the field, to explore the role and contribution of the self when professionally undertaking research. Each chapter addresses valuable questions for academics to examine and articulate the self in one’s work, and encourages the probing of the impact of academic engagement in higher education on individual fidelity to personal and professional values, beliefs and assumptions. With a focus on self-methodologies, including arts-based approaches to reflective and reflexive practice, the authors showcase methods that go beyond traditional reflective practice and explore the interplay of arts and self-practices.


Conceptualising the Academic Self offers transformative educational insights with both theoretical and practical applications. It serves as a comprehensive guide for novice academics to seasoned educators and researchers, as well as institutional leaders and policy influencers, addressing the challenges of self-conceptualisation and self-formation.

Victoria I. Ekpo is a lecturer in English Language Education and currently works as a College Liaison Tutor at Leeds Trinity University, UK. She is also a co-convenor of the Philosophy of Education SIG at BERA. David Allan is Reader in Professional Education and Learning at Edge Hill University, UK and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals and books and has experience in editing special issues of journals.

Introduction: Conceptualising the Academic Self; Victoria I. Ekpo and David Allan

Part One. The Early Academic Journey

Chapter 1. Beyond Solitude: Crafting Identity through Collaborative Side-Projects in Kairotic Spaces; Sharon Louise Smith

Chapter 2. Discovering the Power of Shared Journeys in Doctoral Education; Carrie-Anne Sturt, Mariia Tishenina, Chiara Colombo, Jessica Eccles-Padwick, Amelia Frances Ernest-Shay, Matthew Greenhalgh, Phuong Tu Nguyen, Keisha-Ann Stewart, Thilini Nilanka Weerasooriya, and Delta Wright

Chapter 3. Revisiting the Past to Reimagine the Future: Memory Drawing as Self-Reflexive Professional Learning in Academia; Ntokozo Mkhize-Mthembu, Makie Kortjass, and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

Part Two. In the Midst of Academia

Chapter 4. The Academic Self as Craftsmanship; Victoria I. Ekpo

Chapter 5. Who do You Think You are? Enmeshing Personal, Teaching and Research Identities in Feminist Work: The Personal is Still Political; Clare Woolhouse

Part Three. From Academic to Leader: Stepping in and stepping out

Chapter 6. TRAIL: Navigating Multiple Identities of Teacher/ Researcher/ Artist/ Leadership in Academia; Una McCabe and Michael Flannery

Chapter 7. Doing Collaborative Professional Learning through Lesson Study; David Allan

Conclusion - Self-Exploration and Collaboration: Our Concluding Thoughts; David Allan and Victoria I. Ekpo

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.6.2026
Reihe/Serie Surviving and Thriving in Academia
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Pädagogische Psychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufspädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 1-83708-245-6 / 1837082456
ISBN-13 978-1-83708-245-2 / 9781837082452
Zustand Neuware
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