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Sustained Content-Based Academic Reading

Name : Maspuah
ID : 882030120010
Major : English Education Department
Title of article : An exploration of academic identity through the COVID-19 pandemic
Author (s) : Sally Smith, Kris Plum, Ella Taylor-Smith & Khristin Fabian
Journal : Journal of Further and Higher Education
Publisher : Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Week/date Minutes What does each section tell you about? Please write your
understanding

Drawing on the methodology I learn that Academic

identity research draws on a wide range of philosophical
and methodological approaches (Flowerdew and Wang
June 06th, 2022 20 minutes 2015). In this study the aim was to capture and explore
academic identity and reconstructed identities, and the
ways in which academics drew on resources for identity
work. The social processes for such identity
reconstruction are rarely self-conscious (Ashforth and
Schinoff
2016).

From the findings the authors provide The three

June 06th, 2022 30 minutes overarching themes. They were: (1) a disrupted
academic identity; (2) sensemaking and resources for
identity work; (3) nostalgia for what had been lost.

The discussion tells about the lived experiences of

academics during the COVID-19 pandemic through the
lens of identity. While existing research into academic
June 06th, 2022 10 minutes identity has revealed much about sense of self and role
enactment, the rapid migration to online teaching was a
new context which will almost certainly lead to longer
term changes in teaching practice