Conforming, Accommodating, or Resisting? How Parents in Academia Negotiate Their Professional Identity

Autor/inn/en	van Engen, Marloes L.; Bleijenbergh, Inge L.; Beijer, Susanne E.
Titel	Conforming, Accommodating, or Resisting? How Parents in Academia Negotiate Their Professional Identity
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 46 (2021) 8, S.1493-1505 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2019.1691161
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Fathers; Child Rearing; College Faculty; Women Faculty; Family Work Relationship; Employed Parents; Role Conflict; Professional Identity; Personal Autonomy; Discourse Communities; Masculinity; Organizational Culture; Foreign Countries; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Fakultät; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Rollenkonflikt; Individuelle Autonomie; Männlichkeit; Unternehmenskultur; Ausland; Niederlande
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01