Introduction
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, academic work in institutions of higher education has been subject to manifold and unprecedented technological and political-economic pressures. For academics, it is nowadays far from sufficient to be committed and competent in a discipline, intellectually engaged with a distinctive research niche, and a competent teacher. To be professionally successful, academics now need to adopt output-oriented and anticipatory behavior. They need to negotiate – and in a sense internalize – ubiquitous digitally mediated metrics assessing their work. They are what their h-index of publication productivity and citation impact is. Academics also must navigate regimes of accountability, market-driven and managerial mindsets, and excessive (both externally imposed and internally steered) competition for resources (i.e., grant income) and...
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Vostal, F. (2015). Temporalities of Academic Work. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_125-1
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