Changing Identities in Higher Education Voicing Perspectives

Changing Identities in Higher Education: Voicing perspectivesEdited by Ronald Barnett and Roberto Di NapoliWhat does it mean, personally and professionally, to be an academic, a student, an educational developer, an administrator or a manager in higher education today? Changing Identities in Higher Education attempts to answer such questions. Throughout the pages, readers are invited to look through the lens of a historical process of construction, de-construction, and re-construction, three movements that are seen at the heart of any identity dynamic.In this timely and innovative book, scholars from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia,, explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both on their research and scholarly interests, and their work experiences. Through a combination of the analytical and the autobiographical, the synoptic and the particular, the book offers a rich and nuanced set of fresh insights into identities in higher education today.Taking the form of a debate, and helping to take forward current thinking on identities in higher education, Changing Identities in Higher Education helps to widen the contemporary space for debates on the future of higher education itself. The book is organised into three parts: Part one offers a set of essays each on a set of identities within higher education (academic, student, administrative/managerial, and educational developers and so on). Part two includes responses to Part one from authors speaking from their own professional and scholarly identity perspective (manager, sociologist, anthropologist and so on) Part three offers perspectives on the identities of students, provided by students themselves For its original, dialogic form and varied content, this book is of interest to all those concerned in current debates about the state and nature of higher education today. It makes especially useful reading for students of higher education, lecturers in training, academics and managers alike. It is also of significance for all social theorists interested in questions of identity.Professor Ronald Barnett is Pro-Director for Longer Term Strategy and Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.Roberto Di Napoli is Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at Imperial College London. Key Issues in Higher Education series Higher EducationDi Napoli, Roberto is the author of 'Changing Identities in Higher Education Voicing Perspectives', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415426053 and ISBN 0415426057.