Full Description
The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially. Space-time is deeply relational, contextual and experiential, forming overarching narratives of higher education, its purpose and its future. As timescapes become in/visibilised and subsumed, in various ways and in different contexts, into hegemonic discourses of individual responsibility and choice, new temporal framings must then be carefully re-negotiated and self-managed by students and teachers. The chapters thus draw on theoretical and empirical contributions to examine intersecting pressures and [im]possibilities across different timescapes in higher education. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Teaching in Higher Education.
Contents
Introduction—The timescapes of Higher Education 1. The projectification of the university: consequences and alternatives 2. Challenging chronocentrism: new approaches to futures thinking in the policy and praxis of widening participation in higher education 3. Making futures: equity and social justice in higher education timescapes 4. The war between 'School Time' and 'Colored People's Time' 5. 'Hurry up please, it's time!' A psychogeography of a decommissioned university campus 6. Deferred time in the neoliberal university: experiences of doctoral candidates and early career academics 7. Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students 8. Student perspectives on co-creating timescapes in interdisciplinary projects
