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English for Academic Purposes in Neoliberal Universities: A Critical
Grounded Theory

CAL Language Policy Research Network
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Title: English for Academic Purposes in Neoliberal Universities: A Critical
Grounded Theory

 Author: Gregory Hadley

ISBN: 978-3-319-10448-5
Hardback Price: $139.00

*Softcover Price: $24.99

URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/book/978-3-319-10448-5

 *About the book:*

*Offers a new perspective on social processes affecting English for
Academic Purposes management in Higher Education

*Juxtaposes existing theories with an empirical study of the practices in
English for Academic Purposes units at universities

*Offers an action-based framework that will help teachers and new managers
gain greater understanding of and control over issues in their profession

*Critically analyses common management strategies in EAP units in order to
encourage good practices

The critical grounded theory presented in this book offers valuable
insights on the social processes and strategies used by Blended English for
Academic Purposes Professionals (BLEAPs) at higher education institutions,
as they struggle to negotiate the challenges arising from a new focus on
recruiting international students and hunting for other resources for their
universities. Drawing from in-depth interviews with numerous research
participants at over eleven higher educational institutions in the UK,
Japan and the United States, this work focuses on those who have been
precariously placed as middle manager at many EAP and TESOL programs.
Lacking in both positional power or permanence, these 'BLEAPs' are faced
with many challenges as they seek to understand their changing role in
higher educational institutions, and engage in strategies that can help
them gain greater control over issues in their profession.

*Table of contents: *Acknowledgements.- Table of Figures.- List of Tables.-
Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: Context, Concepts, and Theoretical
Constructions.- 1.1 Pivotal Events.- 1.2 Why This Book?.- 1.3 Key
Concepts.- 1.3.1 Neoliberal Universities.- 1.3.2 English for Academic
Purposes.- 1.3.3 Blended EAP Professionals.- 1.4 Critical Grounded Theory.-
1.4.1 Beginning Stage.- 1.4.2 Intermediate Stage.- 1.4.3 Final Stage.- 1.5
Practicing Reflexivity.- 1.5.1 Research Background and Paradigmatic
Position.- 1.5.2 Composition Style, Transcription, and Data Collection.-
1.6 Structure of This Book.- Chapter 2 EAP in the Third Space of Neoliberal
Universities.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The Shift to Vocationalism.- 2.3
Sociopolitical and Economic Scaffolding.- 2.3.1 Globalization and Higher
Education.- 2.3.2 Massification.- 2.3.3 McDonaldization.- 2.4 Institutional
Manifestations and Emergent Third Spaces .- 2.4.1 Distinguishing Between
Universities: An HEI Typology.- 2.4.2 Enter The Third Space.- 2.5
Reconstructing EAP into Student Processing Units (SPUs).- 2.6 Chapter
Summary.- Chapter 3 The Emergence of Blended EAP Professionals.- 3.1
Introduction.- 3.2 Blended Ambiguity.- 3.3 Life as a BLEAP.- 3.3.1 Becoming
a BLEAP.- 3.3.2 Typical Tasks.- 3.3.3 Types and Trajectories.- 3.5 Chapter
Summary.- Chapter 4 Hunting and Gathering.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Resource
Prospecting.- 4.2.1 Seeking Resource Enhancements.- 4.2.2 Securing
Dependable Resource Flows.- 4.2.3 Cultivating Potential Resources.- 4.2.4
TEAP Response to Resource Prospecting.- 4.3 Investment ServicinG.- 4.4
Milking the Cash Cow.- 4.4.1 Examples of Overseas Program Milking.- 4.4.2
Role of BLEAPs.- 4.4.3 Response of TEAPs.- 4.4.4 Covariances and
Conditions.- 4.5 Resource Leeching.- 4.5.1 Internal Resource Leeching.-
4.5.2 External Resource Leeching.- 4.6 Chapter Summary.- Chapter 5 Weighing
and Measuring.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Contextual Factors in the Weighing &
Measuring of Higher Education.- 5.2.1 External Factors.- 5.2.2 Internal
Factors.- 5.3 Weighing & Measuring Tertiary EAP Programs.- 5.3.1 Challenges
to the Weighing & Measuring of EAP Programs.- 5.3.2 Strategies for Weighing
& Measuring EAP Programs.- 5.4 Weighing & Measuring TEAPs.- 5.4.1
Challenges to the Weighing & Measuring of TEAPs.- 5.4.2 Strategies for
Weighing & Measuring TEAPs.- 5.5 Weighing & Measuring International
Students.- 5.5.1 Challenges to Weighing & Measuring International
Students.- 5.5.2 Strategies for Weighing & Measuring International
Students.- 5.6 Weighing & Measuring BLEAPs.- 5.6.1 Challenges to the
Weighing & Measuring of BLEAPs.- 5.6.2 BLEAP Strategies for Weighing &
Measuring.- 5.7 Chapter Summary.- Chapter 6 Molding and Shaping from On
High.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Seeing the Big Picture.- 6.2.1 BLEAPs and the
Big Picture.- 6.2.2 TEAPs in Obscurity: Puzzling out a Different Picture.-
6.3 Maintaining Control.- 6.3.1 Creating Process Frameworks.- 6.3.2 Owning
the Process.- 6.3.3 In-Group Consolidation.- 6.3.4 Green Zone Construction
and Bunker Building.- 6.3.5 Flow Management as a Control Maintenance
Strategy.- 6.4 Making an Innovative Impact.- 6.5 Consequences of Molding &
Shaping for Tertiary EAP.- 6.5.1 Surviving on Administrative Patronage.-
6.5.2 Reshaping Professional Identities.- 6.5.3 Colonial Transformation.-
6.6 Chapter Summary.- Chapter 7 Mobbing, Struggling, and Managing: A Story
of Professional Disarticulation.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Professional
Disarticulation.- 7.2 Potential Contributions.- 7.3 Further Implications.-
7.4 Final Thoughts.- References.

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