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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149453103321

Autore

Hoofd Ingrid M.

Titolo

Higher Education and Technological Acceleration : The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research / / by Ingrid M. Hoofd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781137514097

1137514094

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 170 p.)

Disciplina

378

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Educational technology

Digital humanities

Higher Education

Digital Education and Educational Technology

Digital Humanities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Speed and Academic Blindness -- Coercive Invitations of Universality -- Idealistic Self-delusions and the Limits of Nostalgia -- The Double-Bind of/in Activist-academic Research -- a Fatally-Wounded University?.

Sommario/riassunto

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.