Storying pedagogy as critical praxis in the neoliberal university encounters and disruptions Mark Vicars, Ligia Pelosi, editors

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vicars, Mark

Pelosi, Ligia

Series:

Rethinking Higher Education

Rethinking higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching--Philosophy.

College teaching.

College teaching--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPOR, 2023.

Singapore Springer [2023]

Summary:

This book examines how teaching and learning and teacher and student identities are being reframed in higher education by neoliberal policies and practices. It shares how teachers perform teaching and learning duties in relation to prescribed institutional policies and how teachers insert dissonant pedagogies as a critical practice. The book explores narrative pedagogy as a disruptive presence and a space for critique. It interrogates personal/professional experience of educational systems that present educators juggling complexity and meeting competing demands to make learning meaningful for students. Each contribution will act as a counterpoint and provide a synoptic method for comparison. The book re-constructs meaning from the generic narrative of the public face of education, which homogenizes and diminishes collective understandings of teachers and teaching. This book provides a contemporary account of the social realities experienced within the higher education classroom across the globe

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Editors and Contributors

1 Doing It on Your Own Terms: Narrating Time and Place in the Neoliberal University

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Knowing as Emotion-Opening Us to Worlds of Passions, Intuition, Fears and Betrayals

1.3 Knowing as Embodiment-Knowing Through Our Body-The Discomforts and Pains

1.4 Knowing as Situated Inquiry-Thinking How Far Is Knowledge Able to Travel and Does It Still Make Sense in Other Locations?

1.5 Knowing Through Deliberate Imposition-Rethinking About Our Ideas About the World, Finding Ways of Knowing That Are Slippery and Indistinct

References

2 Personal Troubles, Public Concerns: A Story from a Neoliberal Academy

3 Shaping the Narratives-Indigenous Knowledges Through Storying

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Breaking through a neo-liberal ideology

3.3 Indigenous knowledges and pedagogy

3.4 Narrative Pedagogy-Storying

3.5 Indigenous Storying Methods

3.6 Metaphors and Indigenous Storying

3.7 Indigenous Storying as a Multi-Sensory Approach

3.8 Reflection

3.9 Lectures

3.10 Talking Circles/Yarning

3.11 On-Country Experiences

3.12 Conclusion

4 Solitary Suffering: 'Imagined' Hierarchies in the New Ethos of a Neoliberal University

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Commodification of English Language Ability

4.3 Commodification and Nativispeakerism

4.4 Conclusion

Note

5 The Posthuman University: A Sign of Our Times

5.1 Preamble

5.2 Introduction

5.3 Coping with an Epidemiological Crisis: Technologizing the Teaching and Learning Process

5.4 Lecture Capture: The Answer?

5.5 The Posthuman as Entanglements of the Human, Non-Human and Material

5.6 Bringing (Academic) Community Together: Technology Use in Times of Socio-Political Crisis

5.7 Online and Offline: A Complex Interrelation

5.8 By Way of Conclusion: Lessons for the Posthuman University

Notes

6 Who's Zoomin' Who? A Slightly Farcical Take on the Rush to Online Learning in the Managerial Academic Era

6.1 Introduction

6.1.1 Writing 'Zoom'

7 Higher Education Under the Siege of Neoliberalism

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Rethinking Neoliberalism

7.3 The Corporate Model of Higher Education Exposed

7.4 Context

7.5 The Interviewees' Stances Interviewee One

7.6 Interviewee Two

7.7 Interviewee Three

7.8 Interviewee Four

7.9 Interviewee Five

7.10 Analytical Examination

7.11 Conclusion

8 I Paid for This, So Now Give It to Me: University as Retailer, Knowledge as Product, Student as Customer

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Context: Neoliberalism and the Marketisation of the University

8.3 Methodology

8.4 Vignettes

8.4.1 Analysis: Competition at the Heart

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2023)

ISBN:

9789819942466

9819942462

OCLC:

1395947154

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license