Ed Res Seminar Series - ‘I hope to be a role model’ or ‘go away, don’t follow’? Authenticity, performativity, and differing perceptions of role-modelling and pedagogical practice
Wednesday 24 January 2024, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Venue
Online (Zoom)Open to
All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Families and young people, Postgraduates, Prospective International Students, Prospective Postgraduate Students, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, UndergraduatesRegistration
Free to attend - registration requiredRegistration Info
To register to watch the seminar via Zoom, please email Dee Daglish for the link and password, which will be sent to you before the seminar.
There will be a chance to ask questions at the end of the seminar presentation via Zoom.
Here is a link where participants can test their device prior to a Zoom meeting.
Event Details
As some of the most visible staff to HE students, those with teaching responsibilities may find themselves positioned as role models, especially if they occupy a minoritised identity. However, this ‘burden’, as one participant put it, may not fall equally or sit comfortably for everyone.
This seminar draws on 30 semi-structured interviews with teaching-responsible staff at a UK STEMMB-focused university to identify a variety of beliefs about the nature, function, and utility of role models and role-modelling, and the connection between authenticity, identity, in/visibility, and teaching values and practice. Who is able to opt out of being a role model, who is expected to convey ‘authenticity’, and who feels required to ‘act’?
Speaker
Dr Jessica Wren Butler (co-authors Dr Jo Horsburgh, Kate Ippolito)
Imperial College London
Dr Jessica Wren Butler is an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher working across the fields of gender studies, cultural sociology, and educational research. Her interests constellate around unbelonging, ideals and imaginaries, and group cultures.
Contact Details
| Name | Dee Daglish |