Is it ever enough?’ Exploring academic language and learning advisory identities through small stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5966729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vittoria Grossi (0000-0002-0989-7454, Deakin University, corresponding author), Laura Gurney (0000-0003-3416-2967, University of Waikato, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-47 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445619887540 |
| OpenAlex | W2988871447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
Contemporarily, higher education workplaces are characterised by collaboration, transitions, fluidity and the crossing of boundaries, where individuals are involved in ongoing negotiation of multilayered identities and simultaneous membership to various groups. These conditions impact the negotiation of professional identities, work and work relationships. One group of professionals affected by the impetus to fluidly operate within institutions are academic language and learning (ALL) advisors. In this article, we explore the identity negotiation of a novice ALL advisor through a positioning lens, focusing on small stories conveyed during an interview. We highlight the ways in which she constructs identities vis-à-vis interactions with students and within the ideological and institutional structures of the contemporary university. This article contributes an important new perspective to existing depictions of ALL advisors as a marginalised group of professionals, making space for the study of advisory agency alongside structural analyses. While continuing to negotiate structural challenges, we argue that the participant’s sense of agency needs to be garnered to strengthen group identity and allow for professionals to transition to the role
Aesthetics · Identity negotiation · Ideology · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sense of agency · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology
Negotiating Identity and Power during a Crisis
Immigrant Outreach and Language Access During First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Conjugando la colaboración en grupos de investigación de alto rendimiento en el ámbito científico-académico
Social functions of gossip in adolescent girl’s talk
Exerting power through interruptions
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity
How to do Discourse Analysis
Identity in Narrative
Small Stories Research
Academic Research in the 21st Century
Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries
Gender Trouble
Because I’m just a stupid woman from an ngo”
Developing Reflexive identities through collaborative, interdisciplinary and precarious work
Block and thread intercultural narratives and positioning
Research methods in intercultural communication
Stories
Academic literacy across the curriculum
Introduction
Moral stance in the workplace narratives of novices
The Discursive Construction of Professional Self Through Narratives of Personal Experience
Story-telling at work
Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis
Small stories as a new perspective in narrative and identity analysis
Positioning
Recent Advances in Positioning Theory
The construction of academic identity in the changes of Finnish higher education
Responding to university policies and initiatives
Interviews as interactional data
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |