A Tale of Two Women in Academia

Autor: Jelena Filipović, Ana Kuzmanović Jovanović
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Teaching and Learning to Co-create ISBN: 9783030727178
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72718-5_2
Popis: This particular piece of writing can be understood as an introductory chapter to a very exciting, insightful, and, above all, honest collection of articles by our students and academic peers. Our narrative views academia as a primary social context. Therefore, when interpreting the theoretical assumptions, methodological orientations, and organization of academic research and writing—all of which are socially, politically, and culturally charged—we attempt to provide a critical evaluation of academic hierarchy, academic authority, academic vanity, and shortsightedness. In a combination of autobiography and (accidental) autoethnography, we emphasize the social aspects of academic research and maturation on both sides of the equation (in both the supervisors and the supervised), in an attempt to illustrate that personal lives cannot be separated from academic careers, suggesting that heterarchy, leadership in thought and action, mutual trust, and empathy all play a crucial role in the making of a person, a researcher, a colleague, but also a mother, a wife, and a friend.
Databáze: OpenAIRE