Fresh thinking about academic development: authentic, transformative, disruptive?

Loads, Daphne; Campbell, Fiona

Abstract

We highlight three ways of conceptualising and enacting academic development: firstly as authentic, practice-based activity, secondly in terms of a new transformative paradigm for academic development units (ADUs), and thirdly as a space for disruption. We illustrate these conceptualisations through our investigation of the practice of internal secondment of faculty to ADUs. We report our findings from a sector-wide survey of Scottish higher education institutions and a series of in-depth interviews with secondees and their managers in two Scottish universities. We recommend further investigations to identify new ways of enacting authentic, practice-based, transformative, and disruptive academic development

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Sep 22, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 22, 2015
• Print ISSN: 1360-144X
• Electronic ISSN: 1470-1324
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 355-369
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2015.1083866
• Keywords: Academic development; internal secondment; authentic; disruptive; transformative
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9197
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2015.1083866