'I Am Done with That Now.' Sense of Alienations in Finnish Academia

Autor/in	Poutanen, Mikko
Titel	'I Am Done with That Now.' Sense of Alienations in Finnish Academia
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 38 (2023) 4, S.625-643 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Poutanen, Mikko)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2022.2067594
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Higher Education; Teacher Attitudes; Universities; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Competition; Work Environment; Alienation; Commercialization; Professional Autonomy; Goal Orientation; Professional Identity; Organizational Change; Administrative Organization; Work Attitudes; Power Structure; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrerverhalten; University; Universität; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Wettkampf; Arbeitsmilieu; Entfremdung; Berufsfreiheit; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Organisationswandel; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Finnland
Abstract	Commercialization and commodification of higher education has been subjected to wide critique in academic literature. The relative privilege of academic professions seems to be on the decline, as universities are subjected to increasing competitive pressures -- pressures which these institutions pass on to academics. Academics experience a loss of control over their own working conditions, with high intrinsic motivation and goals being imprinted by extrinsic ones. Looking at these recent developments through the lens of alienation theory, it is possible to argue that academics feel a deep sense of disempowerment, which is counterproductive not only for academic work, but also traditional academic identities. This theoretical approach is discussed in the context of a Finnish university merger -- the Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and the University of Tampere (UTA) merging into Tampere University (2019) -- which shows experiences of being extraneously controlled, leading to experiences of disengagement and alienation. The causes of alienation are typically placed on the level of higher education policy and higher education institutions, but are not uniform, which is why the plural form -- alienations -- is considered more apt. (As Provided).
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