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TY - CHAP
T1 - Theorising practices of relational working across the boundaries of higher education
AU - Hasted, Catherine
AU - Bligh, Brett
PY - 2020/11/9
Y1 - 2020/11/9
N2 - Higher education research is replete with discussion of boundaries imagined as structural constraints in need of removal or circumvention. But, while foregrounding national-transnational frameworks, leadership strategising, and institutional structures, the scholarship is subdued about how boundaries are actually dealt with at ground level. How do practitioners come together, day by day, across higher education boundaries; and what is required for desirable practices to be nurtured? It is on this issue, and in particular the theorisation of this issue, that the present chapter will focus.The chapter presents and develops a relational working framework, based on the work of Anne Edwards. We highlight three core concepts (common knowledge, relational expertise and relational agency), disaggregating each into constituent features. We then apply the framework to re-interpret previously published empirical studies, to demonstrate its broad applicability. We argue that the framework usefully conceptualises how practitioners work with others across boundaries; that it helps us to notice how many boundaries are, in fact routinely permeated; and that it usefully highlights important aspects of local practices that are easily obscured.
AB - Higher education research is replete with discussion of boundaries imagined as structural constraints in need of removal or circumvention. But, while foregrounding national-transnational frameworks, leadership strategising, and institutional structures, the scholarship is subdued about how boundaries are actually dealt with at ground level. How do practitioners come together, day by day, across higher education boundaries; and what is required for desirable practices to be nurtured? It is on this issue, and in particular the theorisation of this issue, that the present chapter will focus.The chapter presents and develops a relational working framework, based on the work of Anne Edwards. We highlight three core concepts (common knowledge, relational expertise and relational agency), disaggregating each into constituent features. We then apply the framework to re-interpret previously published empirical studies, to demonstrate its broad applicability. We argue that the framework usefully conceptualises how practitioners work with others across boundaries; that it helps us to notice how many boundaries are, in fact routinely permeated; and that it usefully highlights important aspects of local practices that are easily obscured.
KW - relational working
KW - boundary crossing
KW - higher education
KW - boundaries
KW - research agenda
U2 - 10.1108/S2056-375220200000006002
DO - 10.1108/S2056-375220200000006002
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781800433212
VL - 6
BT - Theory and Method in Higher Education Research
A2 - Huisman, Jeroen
A2 - Tight, Malcolm
PB - Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
CY - Bingley
ER -