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Entrepreneurialism and critical pedagogy: reinventing the higher education curriculum.
- Source :
- Teaching in Higher Education; Aug2007, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p525-537, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This paper presents an analysis of the ways in which UK higher education (HE) has become increasingly commercialised and commodified in the post-1980s. It critiques the strategies adopted by successive UK governments to reinvigorate the relationship between educational and economic life, and to facilitate a more corporate and entrepreneurial spirit within the academy in line with the pressures of a 'knowledge-based economy'. Arguing for a more critical exploration of teaching and learning within HE, the paper presents evidence from work carried out by the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching in Learning (CETL) which adopts a research-based learning approach to teaching and learning at undergraduate level.1 Within the context of ongoing debates surrounding the relationship between teaching, learning and research in UK HE, the paper advocates a reinvention of curriculum design through an engagement with the broader principles of critical pedagogy, and in so doing, presents a critical engagement with the commercialisation of HE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13562517
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Teaching in Higher Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25729785
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13562510701415672