Vol. 14 No. 5 (2015), Articles
Vol. 14 No. 5 (2015)

We the academics. Identity narratives and self-definition in the current university

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https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy14-5.nani
Published 2016-06-29
Carla Fardella Cisternas
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Vicente Sisto Campos
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Felipe Jiménez Vargas
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
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Keywords

academic work
entrepreneurial university
academic identities

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Fardella Cisternas, C., Sisto Campos, V., & Jiménez Vargas, F. (2016). We the academics. Identity narratives and self-definition in the current university. Universitas Psychologica, 14(5), 1625-1636. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy14-5.nani
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Abstract

The transformations of the university space from the eighties reveals the rise of managerialist ways to organize the university and its workforce, fostering a culture of accountability and plurality of tasks such as research, guided by the logic of efficiency and market movements. Such claims therefore imply the existence of reconfigurations in academic work identity. Drawing on focused interviews with 20 academics, the article shows two axes around which the narrative identities of academics are organized and what are its effects on self-definition of the group and the ethics of academic work.
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