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The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation: Academics' Writing Practices in the Contemporary University Workplace

知识创造的动力：当代大学工作场所的学者写作实践

基本信息

批准号：
ES/L01159X/1
负责人：
Karin Tusting
金额：
$ 47.32万
依托单位：
Lancaster University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL01159X%2F1
关键词：
Dynamics Knowledge Creation Academics Writing

项目摘要

The proposed study will investigate how knowledge is produced, shaped and distributed through the writing practices of academic staff working across a range of disciplines and at different career stages within the contemporary English HE system. Academic writing practices of various kinds (scholarly, pedagogic, and 'impact' writing) are central to the enterprise of higher education. It is largely through these writing practices that universities achieve their central objectives, against which the success of different institutions is measured. Available digital resources, increased managerialism and the internationalization of higher education are reorganizing the socio-material contexts within which academics carry out their writing work. This study aims to inform future innovation, productivity and teacher training in HE through a better understanding the dynamics of these interconnected processes. The study will inform ideas about how the mission of the university sector can best be supported and developed in challenging times, when demands for greater accountability, increasing numbers of students, resourcing decisions, technologies and changes in the understanding of academics' roles are transforming the work of professionals in higher education. The writing practices of academic staff in nine disciplinary sites will be followed over a year, through a combination of interviews, close ethnographic observation of both online and offline writing activities, and analysis of the wider organizational context. These methods will generate a multi-modal data set which will be analysed through the theoretical lenses of literacy studies and social material theory. Literacy studies draws attention to how participants perform everyday tasks and enact "being an academic" in organizational settings. They link methodologically with studies of everyday practice and involve the close observation of textually-mediated interactions. Socio-material theory articulates the importance of both people and material artefacts in networks of activity. This approach identifies the trajectories of texts, how they circulate and co-ordinate activities across multiple sites; and reveals the underlying physical and information architecture of contemporary practices.Combining these approaches will lead us to analyse elements of the everyday experience and activities of participants including: social networks and relationships; the purposes for academic writing and the location of these within the dynamics of other competing purposes and types of writing; resources and tools including digital and other technologies and library/learning resources; the distribution of academic activities across space and time; and disciplinary and institutional domains including activities of research, teaching, administration, consultancy and service.

拟议的研究将探讨知识是如何产生的，形成和分布通过学术人员在一系列学科的写作实践，并在不同的职业生涯阶段，在当代英语高等教育系统。各种类型的学术写作实践（学术，教学和“影响”写作）是高等教育事业的核心。大学主要是通过这些写作实践来实现其中心目标，并以此来衡量不同机构的成功。可用的数字资源，管理主义的增加和高等教育的国际化正在重新组织学术界开展写作工作的社会物质环境。本研究旨在通过更好地了解这些相互关联的过程的动态，为未来的创新，生产力和教师培训提供信息。这项研究将提供关于如何在充满挑战的时代最好地支持和发展大学部门的使命的想法，当对更大的问责制的需求，学生人数增加，资源决策，技术和对学者角色的理解的变化正在改变高等教育专业人员的工作时。九个学科网站的学术人员的写作实践将在一年多的时间里，通过访谈，在线和离线写作活动的密切人种学观察，以及更广泛的组织背景的分析相结合。这些方法将产生一个多模式数据集，将通过扫盲研究和社会物质理论的理论视角进行分析。识字研究提请注意参与者如何执行日常任务，并在组织环境中制定“作为一个学者”。它们在方法论上与日常实践的研究相联系，并涉及对文本介导的互动的密切观察。社会物质理论阐明了人和物质人工制品在活动网络中的重要性。这种方法确定了文本的轨迹，它们如何在多个地点传播和协调活动，并揭示了当代实践的基本物理和信息架构。结合这些方法，我们将分析参与者的日常经验和活动的元素，包括：社交网络和关系;学术写作的目的以及这些目的在其他竞争目的和写作类型的动态中的位置;资源和工具，包括数字和其他技术以及图书馆/学习资源;学术活动在空间和时间上的分布;以及学科和机构领域，包括研究、教学、行政、顾问和服务活动。