Time to Think Differently? Complex Temporalities in Doctoral Education and Beyond

Gravett, Karen and Rao, Namrata (2024) Time to Think Differently? Complex Temporalities in Doctoral Education and Beyond. In: Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time. Springer. ISBN 9789819734177

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Abstract

What role does time play in how we understand and enact educational research and practice? As a concept, time has traditionally received less attention than other key considerations within education. However, this is evolving as researchers begin to embrace the value of generative concepts such as timescapes, or slow scholarship, to reimagine time as a nuanced, relational concept. These approaches deviate from purportedly objective views of linear or clock time, and instead raise important questions about how time is experienced differently within different contexts and for different individuals. In this chapter, we consider how might we see things differently if we understand time, not as fixed, or uniform, but interweaving, experienced relationally, and as having a multiplicity of meanings. We engage theory to reorientate our conceptions of time in relation to educational theory–practice. In particular, we draw upon our empirical research with doctoral students to suggest that thinking relationally about time enables us to ask new questions about contemporary timescapes of efficiency and instrumentalism in higher education. We consider the potentially unequal impact of different timescapes for doctoral students, owing to their unique circumstances, and examine how we might think differently about both time and temporal equity in higher education and beyond.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Doctoral Education; slow scholarship; timescales; higher education
Faculty / Department: Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education
Depositing User: Namrata Rao
Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2024 11:12
Last Modified: 12 Nov 2024 14:37
URI: https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4308

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