The Timescapes of Teaching in Higher Education

by Penny Jane Burke (Editor), Catherine Manathunga (Editor)

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 .

124 pages, Hardcover

Published June 20, 2023

About the author

Penny Jane Burke is Professor of Education and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute-UK in the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) at the University of Sussex, UK. She has previously published The Right to Higher Education: Beyond Widening Participation.

Reviews

[Tara Brabazon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a diverse edited collection on timescapes in teaching - that maintains a considered and singular argument. What are the consequences of neoliberalism on the timescapes in our universities? With attention to metrics, benchmarks and 'future employability', this book explores how the present - and present conditions - is displaced through 'disruptions' that activate a future. That probably will not happen.

Fascinating. Thought provoking. A ripper.