Reimagining the Academy

​Ali Black is a senior Lecturer and arts-based/narrative researcher in the School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research and scholarly work fosters connectedness, community, well-being, and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Rachael Dwyer is a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research interests include teacher education, music and arts education, critical pedagogy, women/mothers in academia and narrative inquiry.

• Reimagining the Academy: Conceptual, Theoretical, Philosophical, and Methodological Sparks.- Theme I. Holding Space for Story, Struggle and Possibility.- Black Warrior Women Scholars Speak.- My Journey of a Thousand Miles.- How Does a Woman Find Her Voice and Not Lose Her Soul in Academia?.- Theme II. Building Caring Communities and Enacting an Ethics of Care.-  Mentoring Beyond the Finite Games: Creating Time and Space for Connection, Collaboration and Friendship.- A Collective Feminist Ethics of Care with Talanoa: Embodied Time in the ShiFting Spaces of Women’s Academic Work.- Emotional Labour Pains: Rebirth of the Good Girl.- More than Tolerance: A Call to ShiFt the Ableist Academy Towards Equity.- Arts-Based Reflection for Care of Self and Others in the Academy: A Collaged Rhizomatic Journey.- Slow Pedagogies and Care-Full, Deep Learning in Preservice Teacher Education.- Women Navigating the ‘Academic Olympics’: AchievingActivism Through Collaborative Autoethnography.- Envisioning Caring Communities in Initial Teacher Education.- Writing, Playing, Transforming: A Collaborative Inquiry into Neoliberalism’s Effects on Academia, and the Scope for Changing the Game.- Theme III. ShiFting, Renewing and Reimagining the Academy.- The In/Finite Game of Life: Playing in the Academy in the Face of Life and Death.- Beyond Survival: The ShiFt to Aesthetic Writing.- The Gift of Wit(h)nessing Transitional Moments Through a Contemplative Arts Co-inquiry.- Remaking Academic Garments.- Canon, Legacy or Imprint: A Feminist Reframing of Intellectual Contribution.- Beyond Shame and Pride: The University as a Game of Love.