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‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context

This study presents an examination of agency grounded in morality that is enacted by university lecturers to meet teaching and research expectations at an Asian university. This form of agency is conceived as being on the path of least resistance, where there is an interest to meet various expectati...

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Main Authors: Daron Benjamin Loo, Ritha Maidom, Esther Varah
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Teknologi Mara 2023
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LB1025-1050.75 Teaching (Principles and practice)
LB2300-2430 Higher education
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/
https://doi.org/10.24191/ajue.v19i1.21217
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spelling my.ums.eprints.380002024-01-25T08:29:36Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/ ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context Daron Benjamin Loo Ritha Maidom Esther Varah LB1025-1050.75 Teaching (Principles and practice) LB2300-2430 Higher education This study presents an examination of agency grounded in morality that is enacted by university lecturers to meet teaching and research expectations at an Asian university. This form of agency is conceived as being on the path of least resistance, where there is an interest to meet various expectations in a higher education context. Through narrative inquiry, this study examined the reflections of Ritha and Esther collected through collaborative auto-ethnography. The reflections were prompted by four narrative frames and resembled a conversation. Subsequently, the reflections were analysed through the lens of socio-cultural constructivism, where intersubjectivities were drawn together to arrive at a meaningful interpretation of agency. Findings from this study include university lecturers’ reconfiguration of priorities to attend to students’ needs, discovering fulfilment in doing research, and taking an ethical stance towards meeting institutional expectations. These findings point towards a cultural attribute of teacher agency in an Asian setting, which warrants further exploration. Universiti Teknologi Mara 2023 Article NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/1/ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf Daron Benjamin Loo and Ritha Maidom and Esther Varah (2023) ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context. Asian Journal of University Education (AJUE), 19 (1). pp. 235-243. ISSN 1823-7797 https://doi.org/10.24191/ajue.v19i1.21217
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English
topic LB1025-1050.75 Teaching (Principles and practice)
LB2300-2430 Higher education
spellingShingle LB1025-1050.75 Teaching (Principles and practice)
LB2300-2430 Higher education
Daron Benjamin Loo
Ritha Maidom
Esther Varah
‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context
description This study presents an examination of agency grounded in morality that is enacted by university lecturers to meet teaching and research expectations at an Asian university. This form of agency is conceived as being on the path of least resistance, where there is an interest to meet various expectations in a higher education context. Through narrative inquiry, this study examined the reflections of Ritha and Esther collected through collaborative auto-ethnography. The reflections were prompted by four narrative frames and resembled a conversation. Subsequently, the reflections were analysed through the lens of socio-cultural constructivism, where intersubjectivities were drawn together to arrive at a meaningful interpretation of agency. Findings from this study include university lecturers’ reconfiguration of priorities to attend to students’ needs, discovering fulfilment in doing research, and taking an ethical stance towards meeting institutional expectations. These findings point towards a cultural attribute of teacher agency in an Asian setting, which warrants further exploration.
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author Daron Benjamin Loo
Ritha Maidom
Esther Varah
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Ritha Maidom
Esther Varah
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title ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context
title_short ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context
title_full ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context
title_fullStr ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context
title_full_unstemmed ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as Agency grounded in Morality: Meeting Teaching and Research Expectations in an Asian Higher Education Context
title_sort ‘the path of least resistance’ as agency grounded in morality: meeting teaching and research expectations in an asian higher education context
publisher Universiti Teknologi Mara
publishDate 2023
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38000/
https://doi.org/10.24191/ajue.v19i1.21217
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