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The Neoliberal University as a Space to Learn/Think/Work in Higher Education

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ID21875484
AuthorsIgea Troiani (0000-0001-9194-7045, University of Plymouth), Claudia Dutson (0000-0002-1546-3767, Royal College of Art)
Year2021
Volume9
Issue1
Pages5-23
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchitecture and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2050-7836 • E-ISSN: 2050-7828
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/20507828.2021.1898836
OpenAlexW3169221787
LanguageEN
Citations received46
References cited15

This article examines the conditions that have given rise to the neoliberal university, along with the conditions of being a subject of such an institution – whether as educator, student, or manager on the shop-floor of the “edufactory.” Where the liberal university was recognized as a space for critical thought, slow contemplation and transformative becoming for both student and university worker, the imperative of the neoliberal university is to continuously increase performance – measurable in ultimately economic terms, imposing a new auditable disciplining, and quickening pace, of learning, thinking and working. We argue that the model of the neoliberal university is unsustainable if left to continue in its current form, and which Covid-19 has done little to decelerate or dismantle. There is an urgent need to resist, rethink, and reclaim the space to learn/think/work

Contemplation · Epistemology · Higher education · Institution · Pace · Pedagogy · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Transformative learning · Digital Education and Society · Engineering · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · University Challenges and Reforms

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Citations per year11,5
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
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