ABSTRACT

Academic identity is fluid, slippery, and uncertain, academic developer identity even more so. This paper explores the author’s use of photography as a medium through which to present, represent, and interpret her own practice and professional identity as a third space professional within higher education. Drawing on existing literature on academic identity, the author explores the ways in which she has attempted to negotiate her identity as an academic developer through photographs that represent milestones in the construction of this identity. The discussion of these pictures draws on autoethnographic approaches to identity formation combined with visual narratology and takes the form of a visual autoethnography.

摘要

学术身份流动，滑溜，不确定，学术开发人员身份更是如此。本文探讨了作者使用摄影作为媒介来呈现，表示和解释其作为高等教育中第三空间专业人士的实践和职业身份的媒介。作者利用现有的有关学术身份的文献，探索了通过尝试代表其身份建构里程碑的照片来尝试以学术开发者身份进行谈判的方式。这些图片的讨论借鉴了民族志方法和视觉叙事学相结合的身份形成方法，并采用了视觉民族志的形式。