The imagined and the real: Identifying the tensions for academic identity

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 709-721

  Billot, Jennie ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Academic identity; Academic practice; Higher education; Teaching and research

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149460440     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2010.487201     Document Type: Article

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