Invisible Labour: Do We Need to Reoccupy Student Engagement Policy?

Autor/in	Hayes, Sarah
Titel	Invisible Labour: Do We Need to Reoccupy Student Engagement Policy?
Quelle	In: Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 11 (2018) 1, S.19-34 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1755-2273
Schlagwörter	Learner Engagement; Neoliberalism; Educational Policy; Labor; College Students; Commercialization; Discourse Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Collegestudent; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	The 'academic orthodoxy' (Brookfield 1986) of student engagement is questioned by Zepke, who suggests that it supports 'a neoliberal ideology' (2014: 698). In reply, Trowler argues that Zepke fails to explain the mechanisms linking neoliberalism to the concepts and practices of student engagement (2015: 336). In this article, I respond to the Zepke-Trowler debate with an analysis of student engagement policies that illuminates the role of discourse as one mechanism linking neoliberal values with practices of student engagement. Through a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis, I demonstrate a persistent and alarming omission of human labour from university policy texts. Instead, the engagements of students and staff are attributed to technology, documents and frameworks. Student engagement is discussed as a commodity to be embedded and marketed back to students in a way that yields an 'exchange value' (Marx 1867) for universities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01