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Higher Education and Technological Acceleration

The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research

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Authors:
  1. Ingrid M. Hoofd

    1. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  • Considers recent transformations in 21st century higher education across Europe and Asia
  • Examines the relationship between new media technologies, research ethics, pedagogical strategies, and the contemporary university.
  • Studies the call for creativity and critical thinking in the curriculum, the push for e-learning, and the advent of the digital humanities

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Speed and Academic Blindness

    • Ingrid M. Hoofd
    Pages 1-33

  3. Coercive Invitations of Universality

    • Ingrid M. Hoofd
    Pages 35-64

  4. Idealistic Self-Delusions and the Limits of Nostalgia

    • Ingrid M. Hoofd
    Pages 65-97

  5. The Double-Bind of/in Activist–Academic Research

    • Ingrid M. Hoofd
    Pages 99-137

  6. A Fatally Wounded University?

    • Ingrid M. Hoofd
    Pages 139-151

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 153-170
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About this book

This book critically examines the relationship between new media technologies, research ethics, and pedagogical strategies within the contemporary university. It debates whether recent transformations of higher education, rather than an effect of neo-liberalization, are actually an outflow of the technological acceleration of the university's own contradictory ideals around knowledge and democracy. The book sets up this argument by likening the university to a "vision machine" which quest for total scientific and social transparency has recently caved in on itself, negatively affecting staff and student well-being. The book asserts that this situation reveals the essential tension at the heart of the university system, and explores the acceleration of this tension by analyzing a variety of teaching and research advances from Europe and Asia. Examining among other issues the call for creativity and critical thinking in the curriculum, the push for e-learning, and the advent of the digital humanities, this text offers a key analysis of the university's founding ideals and its constitutive relationship to technological acceleration.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ingrid M. Hoofd

About the author

Ingrid M. Hoofd is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research analyses the ways in which left-wing academics and activists mobilize "speed-elitist" discourses in an attempt to overcome oppression. She is the author of 'Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed' (2012).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Higher Education and Technological Acceleration

  • Book Subtitle: The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research

  • Authors: Ingrid M. Hoofd

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51409-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51751-7Published: 06 November 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51409-7Published: 05 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 170

  • Topics: Higher Education, Technology and Digital Education, Digital Humanities

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