Conforming, accommodating, or resisting? How parents in academia negotiate their professional identity

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ID4097323
AutoresMarloes Van Engen (0000-0001-5104-5696, Tilburg University, autor correspondente), Marloes L Van Engen (Nyenrode Business University), Inge L Bleijenbergh (Institute of Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands), Inge Bleijenbergh (0000-0002-5796-544X, Radboud University Nijmegen), Susanne E Beijer (Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Susanne Beijer (0000-0001-7991-4427, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Ano2021
Volume46
Fascículo8
Páginas1493-1505
Data de publicação2021-08-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079.2019.1691161
OpenAlexW2991366559
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas34

This study describes how parents in academia negotiate their professional identity in relation to dominant discourses of science as a calling. Based on in-depth interviews with men and women academics in a Dutch university, five discursive strategies are distilled that reconcile contradictory claims of academia and parenthood. Parents are conforming, suffering or fighting dominant discourses, are optimistic about or pragmatically arranging academia and parenthood. These discursive strategies illustrate agency of parents, simultaneously subscribing to dominant discourses and negotiating alternative stances. Furthermore, from focus groups with leaders we distilled how the material structure of different schools, reflected in the rules and procedures regulating standards to which institutions and individuals are held, sets limits to discursive strategies that academics adopt. We identify the constraints and room for agency and argue that agency can only lead to transformation when transcending individual awareness by moving towards collective action

Aesthetics · Discourse analysis · Focus group · Higher education · Identity negotiation · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Law · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies