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The Resource Higher education and technological acceleration : the disintegration of university teaching and research, Ingrid M. Hoofd

Higher education and technological acceleration : the disintegration of university teaching and research, Ingrid M. Hoofd

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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 of the university system, and explores the acceleration of this tension by analyzing a variety of teaching and research advances from Europe and Asia. Examining among other issues the call for creativity and critical thinking in the curriculum, the push for e-learning, and the advent of the digital humanities, this text offers a key analysis of the university's founding ideals and its constitutive relationship to technological acceleration
Language
eng
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1 online resource (176 pages)
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  • Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Speed and Academic Blindness; The Tyranny of Transparency: Academia's Auto-immunity; Theories of the Neo-liberal University: Humanism Accelerated; The Compulsory Optimism of the Accelerated Academic; The Quest for Complete Knowledge: Visibility, Transparency, Technology; Chapter 2: Coercive Invitations of Universality; The Promise of Thought: Chasing Universal Access to Education; Digital Learning Tools and the Illusion of Student Empowerment; Creativity, Criticality, and Digitalism in the Global Asian University
  • Accelerated Illusions of Democracy and CriticalityThe Annexation of the Post-colonies into the Global Vision Machine; Chapter 3: Idealistic Self-Delusions and the Limits of Nostalgia; From Renaissance Man to the Perverse University; Nostalgic Violence and the Questioning Ethic; An Ethics and Pedagogy of Justice: Neo-liberal Antidotes?; The Critique of Methods as Generous Teaching; On the Limits of Justice, Democracy, and Transparency; Chapter 4: The Double-Bind of/in Activist-Academic Research; Cybernetic Communication and the 'Pure' University
  • Communication for Social Change: The Rise of a ParadigmNew University Projects and the Acceleration of Thought; Productive Crossings: Academia and Alter- Globalist Activism; The Dissemination of'Social Change' via 'Social Media'; Chapter 5: A Fatally Wounded University?; Caught Between Passion and Exhaustion; Out of the Ashes of Academia?; Bibliography; Index
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9781137514097
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Higher education and technological acceleration : the disintegration of university teaching and research
Title
Higher education and technological acceleration
Title remainder
the disintegration of university teaching and research
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Ingrid M. Hoofd
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Language
eng
Summary
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 of the university system, and explores the acceleration of this tension by analyzing a variety of teaching and research advances from Europe and Asia. Examining among other issues the call for creativity and critical thinking in the curriculum, the push for e-learning, and the advent of the digital humanities, this text offers a key analysis of the university's founding ideals and its constitutive relationship to technological acceleration
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Hoofd, Ingrid M
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378.17344678
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index present
LC call number
LB2395.7
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Education, Higher
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Higher education and technological acceleration : the disintegration of university teaching and research, Ingrid M. Hoofd
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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text
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Content type MARC source
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Contents
  • Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Speed and Academic Blindness; The Tyranny of Transparency: Academia's Auto-immunity; Theories of the Neo-liberal University: Humanism Accelerated; The Compulsory Optimism of the Accelerated Academic; The Quest for Complete Knowledge: Visibility, Transparency, Technology; Chapter 2: Coercive Invitations of Universality; The Promise of Thought: Chasing Universal Access to Education; Digital Learning Tools and the Illusion of Student Empowerment; Creativity, Criticality, and Digitalism in the Global Asian University
  • Accelerated Illusions of Democracy and CriticalityThe Annexation of the Post-colonies into the Global Vision Machine; Chapter 3: Idealistic Self-Delusions and the Limits of Nostalgia; From Renaissance Man to the Perverse University; Nostalgic Violence and the Questioning Ethic; An Ethics and Pedagogy of Justice: Neo-liberal Antidotes?; The Critique of Methods as Generous Teaching; On the Limits of Justice, Democracy, and Transparency; Chapter 4: The Double-Bind of/in Activist-Academic Research; Cybernetic Communication and the 'Pure' University
  • Communication for Social Change: The Rise of a ParadigmNew University Projects and the Acceleration of Thought; Productive Crossings: Academia and Alter- Globalist Activism; The Dissemination of'Social Change' via 'Social Media'; Chapter 5: A Fatally Wounded University?; Caught Between Passion and Exhaustion; Out of the Ashes of Academia?; Bibliography; Index
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (176 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781137514097
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • c
Other control number
10.1057/978-1-137-51409-7
Specific material designation
remote
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ocn962450483
Label
Higher education and technological acceleration : the disintegration of university teaching and research, Ingrid M. Hoofd
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Speed and Academic Blindness; The Tyranny of Transparency: Academia's Auto-immunity; Theories of the Neo-liberal University: Humanism Accelerated; The Compulsory Optimism of the Accelerated Academic; The Quest for Complete Knowledge: Visibility, Transparency, Technology; Chapter 2: Coercive Invitations of Universality; The Promise of Thought: Chasing Universal Access to Education; Digital Learning Tools and the Illusion of Student Empowerment; Creativity, Criticality, and Digitalism in the Global Asian University
  • Accelerated Illusions of Democracy and CriticalityThe Annexation of the Post-colonies into the Global Vision Machine; Chapter 3: Idealistic Self-Delusions and the Limits of Nostalgia; From Renaissance Man to the Perverse University; Nostalgic Violence and the Questioning Ethic; An Ethics and Pedagogy of Justice: Neo-liberal Antidotes?; The Critique of Methods as Generous Teaching; On the Limits of Justice, Democracy, and Transparency; Chapter 4: The Double-Bind of/in Activist-Academic Research; Cybernetic Communication and the 'Pure' University
  • Communication for Social Change: The Rise of a ParadigmNew University Projects and the Acceleration of Thought; Productive Crossings: Academia and Alter- Globalist Activism; The Dissemination of'Social Change' via 'Social Media'; Chapter 5: A Fatally Wounded University?; Caught Between Passion and Exhaustion; Out of the Ashes of Academia?; Bibliography; Index
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (176 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781137514097
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1057/978-1-137-51409-7
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
ocn962450483

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