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Higher Education and Technological Acceleration: The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research
Ingrid M. Hoofd
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Description for Higher Education and Technological Acceleration: The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research
Hardback. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
This book critically examines the relationship between new media technologies, research ethics, and pedagogical strategies within the contemporary university. It debates whether recent transformations of higher education, rather than an effect of neo-liberalization, are actually an outflow of the technological acceleration of the university's own contradictory ideals around knowledge and democracy. The book sets up this argument by likening the university to a vision machine which quest for total scientific and social transparency has recently caved in on itself, negatively affecting staff and student well-being. The book asserts that this situation reveals the essential tension at the heart ... Read more
This book critically examines the relationship between new media technologies, research ethics, and pedagogical strategies within the contemporary university. It debates whether recent transformations of higher education, rather than an effect of neo-liberalization, are actually an outflow of the technological acceleration of the university's own contradictory ideals around knowledge and democracy. The book sets up this argument by likening the university to a vision machine which quest for total scientific and social transparency has recently caved in on itself, negatively affecting staff and student well-being. The book asserts that this situation reveals the essential tension at the heart ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137517517
SKU
V9781137517517
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99-15
About Ingrid M. Hoofd
Ingrid M. Hoofd is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research analyses the ways in which left-wing academics and activists mobilize speed-elitist discourses in an attempt to overcome oppression. She is the author of 'Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed' (2012).
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