Higher Education and Technological Acceleration The Disintegration o
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-liber
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Higher Education & Technological Acceleration THE DISINTEGRATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Higher Education and Technological Acceleration
Ingrid M. Hoofd
Higher Education and Technological Acceleration The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research
Ingrid M. Hoofd Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-1-137-51751-7 ISBN 978-1-137-51409-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51409-7
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PREFACE
A huge number of academic books have been written over the last few decades on the transformations of higher education, both positive and negative, the world over. A quick search on the Internet on this topic reveals more than a million titles, many of which have been written in the last 20 years—indeed, publication numbers have risen exponentially, productively addressing, yet hence paradoxically also validating criticisms of current academic over-production. Why then add yet another book to this already excellent and well-researched body of work on this topic? The reasons for writing this particular book are in fact simple: they have to do with what this book flags as a lack of self-reflexive depth concerning the entanglements of the laudable ideals of the university and the pernicious neo-liberal economy in many of such books, not in the least concerning, for instance, that paradox of over-production. Indeed, many of the more critical books in this genre propose that the university in recent years has fallen victim to an immoral onslaught of neo-liberal policies and techniques that are imposed from the outside, leading to a host of hitherto unseen internal and external issues and
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