Derailing transformative education

Grey, S.; Kenkel, David; Cooke, David; Loo, Wei

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2018-11
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Grey, S., Kenkel, D., Cooke, D., Loo, W. (2018, November). Derailing transformative education. Paper presented at the NZARE Conference 2018 - Shaping our futures, Manukau Auckland.
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OVERVIEW: The direction • Massification, marketisation, and managerialism • Globalisation and imperialism • Attacks on the academic profession The impact • Alienation, mission drift, alienation The neoliberal experiment at Unitec. 2013-2017 • The philosophy that informed Unitec’s transformation (i.e. restructure) can be summed up: Public vocational education should prioritize and focus wholly on the needs of business. • Education to be business focussed, not student focussed A TRIO OF PROBLEMS: Inherent structural problems Incompetent and ill planned implementation Failure to listen to advice or take account of evidence-based feedback What do we do as a scholarly community to stop a repeat of Unitec?
Keywords:
New Zealand, tertiary education, vocational education, Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, N.Z.), organisational change, neoliberalism, privatisation, corporate management, Ede, Rick (Unitec Institute of Technology CE), student enrolments, Concentrix (Firm), management by educators, ITP sector, institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITP) sector, reform, restructure
ANZSRC Field of Research:
130103 Higher Education, 130213 Vocational Education and Training Curriculum and Pedagogy, 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
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