Beyond the pandemic pedagogy of managerialism: exploring the limits of online teaching and learning

Nayak, Bhabani Shankar (2024) Beyond the pandemic pedagogy of managerialism: exploring the limits of online teaching and learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, London. ISBN 9783031401930

Abstract

This book analyses how growing managerialism and the marketisation of higher education has undermined educational standards and pedagogical integrity. Specifically, it provides a thorough critique of how the pandemic, and the move to online learning and MOOCs, has reinforced these developments. The book outlines the limits of new managerialism, which is replacing critical mass with a culture of compliance in higher education.

Employing an ethnographic approach, the book explores the impact of the sudden shift in teaching delivery from in-person to online for example, the changing role of the PhD supervisor during the pandemic, and the impact on students’ willingness to engage and their (in)visibility in the classroom, and further considers how these impact class interactions, social relationships and learning. Ultimately, this book argues that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the limits of marketisation of education and revealed the distorted managerial response to acrisis.

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