Journal article
Exploring the paradoxes and tensions encountered by business faculty teaching teamwork in a changing academic environment
Higher Education Research & Development
2021
Abstract
The contemporary university is now characterised as a complex working environment wherein faculty must negotiate increasing demands for accountability, performativity, and productivity. A multiplicity of expectations adds to this complexity. Specifically, expectations set by employers in developing ‘work-ready’ graduates have compelled faculty to negotiate interdependent contradictions that focus on developing employability skills alongside technical skills. This qualitative study reports on the lived experiences of 30 business school teaching faculty, negotiating tensions as they relate to the teaching of one type of employability skill: teamwork. Paradox theory is appropriated to better understand how faculty perceive their professional environment and practices related to teamwork pedagogy. The findings reveal that faculty navigate the performing/learning, performing/organising and performing/belonging paradoxes of teamwork pedagogy by passively suppressing tensions or through proactive acceptance strategies.
Details
- Title
- Exploring the paradoxes and tensions encountered by business faculty teaching teamwork in a changing academic environment
- Authors/Creators
- L. Riebe (Author/Creator) - Edith Cowan UniversityC. Whitsed (Author/Creator) - Curtin UniversityA. Girardi (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Higher Education Research & Development
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 991005541295207891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Do not use- Former Murdoch Business School
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.3 Management
- 6.3.343 Organizational Theory
- Web Of Science research areas
- Education & Educational Research
- ESI research areas
- Social Sciences, general