Short-term, short-changed? A temporal perspective on the implications of academic casualisation for teaching in higher education
The increasing casualisation of academic labour over recent years has been noted across the global north. In the UK, this takes a number of forms, including fixed term, hourly paid and zero hours contracts. What tends to characterise them all, however, is a focus on the short-term. In this paper, we...
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| description | The increasing casualisation of academic labour over recent years has been noted across the global north. In the UK, this takes a number of forms, including fixed term, hourly paid and zero hours contracts. What tends to characterise them all, however, is a focus on the short-term. In this paper, we draw on a qualitative study with 20 UK-based academics on casualised contracts to consider the implications of the short-term nature of such employment for teaching and pedagogy. We come to this with a temporal perspective, in part in response to Felt’s call for a chronopolitical analysis of the changing temporalities of academia. We discuss how short-term temporal logics marked by last-minute or ‘just-in-time’ modalities can be seen to impact negatively on teaching preparation and pedagogical relationships, raising questions about innovation and criticality, power and in/security, continuity and care. |
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| spelling | oai:repository.londonmet.ac.uk:57142022-08-12T10:27:06Z http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5714/ Short-term, short-changed? A temporal perspective on the implications of academic casualisation for teaching in higher education Leathwood, Carole Read, Barbara 370 Education The increasing casualisation of academic labour over recent years has been noted across the global north. In the UK, this takes a number of forms, including fixed term, hourly paid and zero hours contracts. What tends to characterise them all, however, is a focus on the short-term. In this paper, we draw on a qualitative study with 20 UK-based academics on casualised contracts to consider the implications of the short-term nature of such employment for teaching and pedagogy. We come to this with a temporal perspective, in part in response to Felt’s call for a chronopolitical analysis of the changing temporalities of academia. We discuss how short-term temporal logics marked by last-minute or ‘just-in-time’ modalities can be seen to impact negatively on teaching preparation and pedagogical relationships, raising questions about innovation and criticality, power and in/security, continuity and care. Informa UK Limited 2020-03-23 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5714/1/Short-term-short-changed_A-temporal-perspective-on-academic-casualisation-and-teaching.pdf Leathwood, Carole and Read, Barbara (2020) Short-term, short-changed? A temporal perspective on the implications of academic casualisation for teaching in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 27 (6). pp. 756-771. ISSN 1470-1294 https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1742681 10.1080/13562517.2020.1742681 |
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