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Thinking (now) out of place? Methodologies of dissent inside the corporatised university
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Thinking (now) out of place? Methodologies of dissent inside the corporatised university

Stephen Heimans, Alison L Black, Rachael Dwyer, Deborah Heck, Shelley Davidow, Brendon Munge, Catherine Thiele, Catherine Manathunga and Vicki Schriever
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2019 (Brisbane, Australia, 01-Dec-2019–05-Dec-2019)
Australian Association for Research in Education
2019
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Specialist Studies in Education
Wearied by the ringing noise of corporatisation that currently pervades the academy, this ethnodrama-influenced presentation engages us in speculative silence and speaking back. Using performative and contemplative methods, we react to the increasing corporate incursions into institutions of higher learning - the over-valuing of money, measures and metrics - which encroach upon our freedom to think. This neo-liberalisation of our scholarly practices (which demands we pay attention to rankings, performance and comparison) is reducing time for knowledge work focused on the public good. Rather than courageously working for long-term sustainability and social justice, our scholarship is limited to narrowed, short-term and fundable agendas - our care, desire, creativity and blue-sky, novel pursuits subsequently compromised.

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