The (re-)allocation of academic time: the case of Departments of Primary Education in Greece

The transformation of the university in recent years has been rapid and posed unprecedented challenges to the institution as a whole. One of them concerns faculty members and the (re-)allocation of academic time. In this paper we focus on the faculty members of the Pedagogic Departments of Primary Education in Greece. We attempt to capture the more visible part of their academic time related to their pedagogical activity and highlight the volume of their, visible administrative obligations -participation in committees, assemblies, the Erasmus+ program. After discussing the issue of the evolution of the university in the contemporary context, we will focus on the growth of Pedagogic Departments. On this basis, we will present our conclusions. In the background, our concerns relate to the room available in academic time for the production of new knowledge - the research produced in the university.