Academic Mobbing in Higher Education Internationally: Pursuing a Spiritual Center Amid an Injurious Void

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session represents a continued effort to problematize power along emotionality, spirituality, disability, gender, and language, among others within the academy. This power, manifested in academic mobbing, constrains the personal/professional lives of hegemonic and social justice teacher educators. The panelists represent an interdisciplinary and international cohort of voices needed to disrupt academic mobbing within everyday social science practices in our respective fields. An interdisciplinary conceptual framework was used to empower, heal and make feeling-meaning making of our experiences. We used self-study methodology to (re)present a variety of autoethnographic texts to illuminate the workings of academic mobbing as a form of hegemony in our lives to inform theory, research, and praxis in the academy and (social justice) teacher education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Spirituality & Education

Chair

• David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa

Papers

• Resisting/Yearning for a Pedagogy of Love in Academia: A Collective Self-Study of Academic Mobbing - David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa

• Finding Treasure Within the Ruins: Tactics and Typologies of the Mob - Jennifer L. Martin, University of Illinois at Springfield

• Accounts of Participation in a Higher Education Research Group: Between Academic Pimping and Academic Mobbing? - Igor Vinicius Lima Valentim, University of Lisbon

• Doing Disability Studies: A Duoethnography Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations for Praxis in Schools of Education - Emily A. Nusbaum, Mills College

Discussant

• Holly Pearson, Framingham State University