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Freedom to Achieve: addressing the attainment gap through student and staff co-creation
(Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, 2019-06-11)
This paper examines the role that curriculum co-creation can play in creating a more inclusive higher education and, in so doing, addresses the complex challenge of differential student outcomes and attainment. It achieves ...
The Alienated Academic: the Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-10)
Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the ...
On the alienation of academic labour and the possibilities for mass intellectuality
(tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique., 2017)
As one response to the secular crisis of capitalism, higher education is being proletarianised. Its academics and students, increasingly encumbered by precarious employment, debt, and new levels of performance management, ...
On authoritarian neoliberalism and poetic epistemology
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-07-10)
As one response to the secular crisis of capitalism, higher education is being proletarianised. Its academics and students, increasingly encumbered by precarious employment, debt, and new levels of performance management, ...
From employability to ‘complexability’: Creatour – a construct for preparing students for creative work and life
(2018-01-31)
Abstract
Higher Education (HE) students and employers within the creative industries dismiss prevailing ‘employability’ skills as inadequate.
The author discovers the ‘bottom up’ reality that entry into the creative ...
On autonomy and the technological abolition of academic labour
(Springer, 2019)
As the global higher education sector is re-engineered through real subsumption inside the logic of competition, academic labour is increasingly proletarianised through the desperate search for relative surplus value. As ...
Now we don’t see the university as something distant. It’s here in our hands: Situated pedagogy in Cuban municipal universities
(Institute for Education Policy Studies, 2019-04)
The first years of the twenty-first century saw the introduction of a new mode of higher education in Cuba. Local university centres were set up across the country offering part time study to a range of students previously ...
