Le « je suis débordé » de l’enseignant-chercheur
This article explores how academics (i.e university teachers and researchers in the French public sector) elaborate their timetables, dealing with their various temporalities, including the specific temporal order of the academic world. It argues that considering the diversity of professional activi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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ADR Temporalités
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Temporalités |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/2632 |
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| Summary: | This article explores how academics (i.e university teachers and researchers in the French public sector) elaborate their timetables, dealing with their various temporalities, including the specific temporal order of the academic world. It argues that considering the diversity of professional activities and the very few existing rules for time regulation (i.e time frames), their professional practices tend to be characterized by a high level of mutability, individualization and autonomy. Another feature of that professional background would be the complex distinction and porosity between work and off-work times.Nevertheless, academics may easily complain about being overloaded and subject to time pressures. The rather common "I am over my head" expression must be seen here in relation to the necessary task of co-construction and reconciliation of their various temporalities.Analyzing this individual, everyday "invisible work" of scheduling reveals several forms of time tensions that we try here to identify and clarify. The first concerns the intrication of professional and non-professional times. The second is located in the multiple discontinuities of activities. The third concerns the interweaving of different, and sometimes conflicting, levels of temporalities. The last one is activated by the different reforms that try to transform the professional frameworks.Academics tend then to develop some tactics or “temporal tricks” to prevent those tensions from turning into pressure, such as boundary building or changes, “routinized” time practices and assumed “multi-tasking", re-categorization of activities, re-directing and containment of required times.The article concludes with some implications and stakes that consider time itself less as a frame than as an activity. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-9006 2102-5878 |