Unbundling : a new gendered frontier of exclusion and exploitation in the neoliberal university
Ivancheva, Mariya (2020) Unbundling : a new gendered frontier of exclusion and exploitation in the neoliberal university. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 1. pp. 99-104. (https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v1i1.29204)
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Abstract
Unbundling is the process of disaggregating educational provision into its component parts likely for delivery by multiple stakeholders, often through public-private partnerships and the use of digital approaches (Swinnerton et al., 2018). A neutral definition, it relates to a process that is all but neutral to higher education. Having done research on unbundling South African and English universities, on a project focused on teaching and learning processes, I could not help but realise the extent to which this process affects much more than student learning and online teaching material curation patterns. Under the premise of widening access, it contributes to a potentially profoundly gendered casualisation, automation, deprofessionalisation, and fragmentation of academic labour to new unforeseen degrees. In this, unbundling reveals a new frontier of exploitation and exclusion at universities that we need to be aware of and organise against.
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Item type: Article ID code: 78132 Dates: DateEvent17 February 2020Published2 June 2019AcceptedSubjects: Education Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Oct 2021 10:36 Last modified: 29 Nov 2024 01:17 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78132