Derailing transformative education
Grey, S.; Kenkel, David; Cooke, David; Loo, Wei
Date
2018-11Citation:
Grey, S., Kenkel, D., Cooke, D., Loo, W. (2018, November). Derailing transformative education. Paper presented at the NZARE Conference 2018 - Shaping our futures, Manukau Auckland.Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/4590Abstract
OVERVIEW:
The direction
• Massification, marketisation, and managerialism
• Globalisation and imperialism
• Attacks on the academic profession
The impact
• Alienation, mission drift, alienation
The neoliberal experiment at Unitec.
2013-2017
• The philosophy that informed Unitec’s transformation (i.e. restructure) can be summed up: Public vocational education should prioritize and focus wholly on the needs of business.
• Education to be business focussed, not student focussed
A TRIO OF PROBLEMS:
Inherent structural problems
Incompetent and ill planned implementation
Failure to listen to advice or take account of evidence-based feedback
What do we do as a scholarly community to stop a repeat of Unitec?