INTENSIFICATION OF ACADEMIC WORK, WHAT THE PANDEMIC REVEALS
The article presents the emerging knowledge at the intersection of the pandemic as a social event and the intensification of academic work in the Uruguayan public university. It is part of a broader research that seeks to understand the teaching experience of university professors in a social and in...
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Núcleo de Estudios e Investigaciones en Educación Superior del MERCOSUR
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/integracionyconocimiento/article/view/45898 |
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| Sumario: | The article presents the emerging knowledge at the intersection of the pandemic as a social event and the intensification of academic work in the Uruguayan public university. It is part of a broader research that seeks to understand the teaching experience of university professors in a social and institutional context marked by processes of diversification, intensification and individualization of academic life. It was based on a qualitative methodology with in-depth interviews that covered dimensions of the biographies and academic paths of male and female experienced professors with levels 3, 4 and 5, from the three macro-areas of the University. From their voices, the pandemic appears as an exacerbation of what was already happening: remote working, the availability to always be connected, the non-separation of free and work time, or of the university space and the home. Professors experience themselves as subjects of the moment, required to react faster and faster, affected by dizzying production times and the permanent need to define times, spaces, priorities in relation to a heterogeneity of tasks to take care of. They are torn between the suffering caused by the demands they put on themselves, the intensification of academic work, and the love of their discipline, of research, of teaching, of extension. Nowadays, post-pandemic times invite us not to forget, to stop and reflect, to get in touch with The Slow Professor. |
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