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The purpose of this chapter is to draw attention to various forms of power when they express themselves through silence by faculty members within universities. This exploration retunes our otherwise distracted attention to the role of the professoriate within the academy and in society at large. Concretely, how is the role of the professoriate understood and enacted by its actors, especially by those who have not had a disruptive incident in their tenure and as a result, arguably, have not reflected upon or defended their privileged position. I argue that education has an important role to play in the preparation of the professoriate if they are to serve the public as it was initially intended/hoped. If education is to play this role, the role of education (as a discipline) itself, needs to be examined and silence within it interrogated. This chapter attends to these issues.
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Kumar, R. (2013). Silence within the Academy. In: Kompf, M., Denicolo, P.M. (eds) Critical Issues in Higher Education. Critical Issues in The Future of Learning and Teaching, vol 8. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-046-0_13
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