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.
Table of Contents
Introduction—The timescapes of Higher Education
Penny Jane Burke and Catherine Manathunga
1. The projectification of the university: consequences and alternatives
Mollie Dollinger
2. Challenging chronocentrism: new approaches to futures thinking in the policy and praxis of widening participation in higher education
Genevieve Liveley and Alex Wardrop
3. Making futures: equity and social justice in higher education timescapes
Matthew Bunn and Anna Bennett
4. The war between ‘School Time’ and ‘Colored People’s Time’
John Streamas
5. ‘Hurry up please, it's time!’ A psychogeography of a decommissioned university campus
Frances Kelly
6. Deferred time in the neoliberal university: experiences of doctoral candidates and early career academics
Agnes Bosanquet, Lilia Mantai and Vanessa Frederiks
7. Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students
Dawn Bennett, Elizabeth Knight and Kenton Bell
8. Student perspectives on co-creating timescapes in interdisciplinary projects
Patric Wallin
