1st Edition
Representations of the Academic Challenging Assumptions in Higher Education
1. Introduction Jean McNiff 2. Gamification of personal learning trajectories Camilla Gyldendahl-Jensen 3. Unruly thought: Valuing and supporting academics who manage mental health issues Welby Ings 4. Whose knowledge counts? The academic, academic knowledge and epistemic justice Margaret Meredith 5. Encouraging teachers and learning support assistants (LSAs) to see themselves as researchers Catherine McPartland 6. Truth in a time of untruth: The academic as public educator Jon Nixon 7. Cross-cultural doctoral PhD-supervision as transformative academic practice Sigrid Gjøtterud and Athman Kyaruzi Ahmad 8. Wrighting an academic life as a practitioner researcher: Constructing knowledge on the home front, at the university, throughout the Americas, and in our global community Joseph M. Shosh 9. The cut: Women and the practice of female genital mutilation in Kuria, Kenya Boke Joyce Wambura 10. Developing teacher professionalism in an era of neo-liberalism Hilde Hiim 11. Total nursing: Reclaiming nursing for the patient Peter McDonnell 12. Developing new research networks in Latvia Linda Pavītola and Lāsma Latsone 13. Afterword Jean McNiff
Biography
Jean McNiff is Professor Emerita of Educational Research at York St John University, UK.
