Hayes, Sarah L (2018). Invisible labour:Do we need to reoccupy student engagement policy? LATISS, 11 (1), pp. 19-34.
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.
Divisions: | Non-College Departments |
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Additional Information: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Learning and Teaching. The definitive publisher-authenticated version 'Invisible labour: Do we need to reoccupy student engagement policy?' Sarah Hayes. Learning and Teaching, 11:1, 19-34. is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2018.110102 |
Publication ISSN: | 1755-2281 |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2024 16:13 |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2018 08:27 |
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PURE Output Type: | Special issue |
Published Date: | 2018-07-16 |
Published Online Date: | 2018-03-01 |
Accepted Date: | 2018-03-01 |
Authors: |
Hayes, Sarah L
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