Representations of the Academic : Challenging Assumptions in Higher Education (Paperback)

1. Introduction  2. Gamification of personal learning trajectories  3. Unruly thought: Valuing and supporting academics who manage mental health issues  4. Whose knowledge counts? The academic, academic knowledge and epistemic justice  5. Encouraging teachers and learning support assistants (LSAs) to see themselves as researchers  6. Truth in a time of untruth: The academic as public educator  7. Cross-cultural doctoral PhD-supervision as transformative academic practice  8. Wrighting an academic life as a practitioner researcher: Constructing knowledge on the home front, at the university, throughout the Americas, and in our global community  9. The cut: Women and the practice of female genital mutilation in Kuria, Kenya  10. Developing teacher professionalism in an era of neo-liberalism  11. Total nursing: Reclaiming nursing for the patient  12. Developing new research networks in Latvia  13. Afterword