What is academic development? Contributing a frontier-extending conceptual analysis to the field’s epistemic development

In 2014 the International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD) issued a call papers ‘Beyond learning and teaching: Extending frontiers of academic development’. Though it was never published, conceptual definitional opacity that this special issue expected to address, along with prevalent epistemic parochialism, remain problematic development scholarship, article focuses on them. The incorporates critique field’s scholarship within analysis culminates in presentation author’s original model componential structure development. is argued, poised at crossroad; its dependent upon adopting wider focus agenda critical scholars are calling for, diffuse mainstream teaching learning. Mainstream ripe expansion into neighbouring fields, encourage developers shift their from what they do, do is.