Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education [Paperback]

Section 1: Playing a different flute??1. Singing Lessons for the Lecturer??2. Dancing Through Shadows: A Journey from Academia to Career Coaching??3. Always coming home. A conversation with Sisyphus??Section 2: Living by other standards??4. Like the Ugly Duckling. Lived Experiences of Misfitting in the Classroom??5. God is a lobster: Of muteness and a lost sense of professional value in becoming an academic??6. Making an academic career without a reference??Section 3: Adhering to a heart??7. Heres to the misfits: Academic misfitting and collegiality as resistance and subversion??8. Haunting dissonance: The inner conflict of a business school misfit??9. Misfitting together??Section 4: Cherishing a whole life??10. Odd body out: the female pregnant body in the male intellectual domain??11. Academia, ready for the future or stuck in the past? - How the academic system promotes a patriarchist family picture??12. Forced to find a different fit: Cruel optimism, the academic precariat and third space hybrid identities??Section 5: Being an academic misfit is not so bad

Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education?presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics that want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need and should be changed to allow for more equitable experiences.

Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics who want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need to be and should be changed to allow for more equitable experiences.

Internationally placed contributors share personal stories of the various ways they have been made to feel out of place in the career path of academia, inclã2