Disposable Drudgery: Outsourcing Goes to College

Dingo, Rebecca; Riedner, Rachel; Wingard, Jennifer

doi:10.7330/9780874219623.c011

Cited by 2 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Dingo, Riedner, and Wingard (2015) lament their university‐based writing program that developed a curriculum specifically to address the needs and desires of a government client that dictated much of the content, the final product of which had “little to do with practices developed by disciplinary‐based scholars” (p. 276). My own program recently agreed to host several cohorts of students from a government client that provided its own curriculum.…”

Section: Covert Neoliberal Language Policy Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“If I Don’t Do It, Somebody Else Will”: Covert Neoliberal Policy Discourses in the Decision‐Making Processes of an Intensive English Program

Litzenberg

2020

TESOL Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Intensive English programs (IEPs) have traditionally been central actors in promoting teacher professional development, curricular innovations, and applied linguistics and second language acquisition research. Yet at the same time, the programs are also central actors in neoliberal linguistic commodification. This article demonstrates how neoliberalism influences the covert policy discourses of the decision‐making processes of an IEP. Using an analytic autoethnographic approach to present an interwoven series of narratives and analyses, the article argues that IEP administrators, faculty, and staff are limited in how they can contest their complicity at propelling a neoliberal institution profiting from language education. The article also demonstrates how neoliberal positioning took precedence over pedagogical discourses in certain decision‐making processes and impeded the experimentation and exercise of an innovative curriculum, and it suggests ways that the neoliberal orientation of IEPs currently impacts and eventually may alter the nature of MA TESOL. The issues presented here not only reflect the experiences and concerns of professionals in English language teaching, but they are also timely in that IEPs have been largely underrepresented in the expanding discussions of the relationship between applied linguistics, its subfields, and neoliberalism.

show abstract

Section: Covert Neoliberal Language Policy Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“If I Don’t Do It, Somebody Else Will”: Covert Neoliberal Policy Discourses in the Decision‐Making Processes of an Intensive English Program

Litzenberg

2020

TESOL Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…On the other hand, we must also directly confront the adverse effects of internationalization of higher education on domestic students. For example, writing for an edited collection on "transnational writing program administration, " Dingo, Riedner, and Wingard (2015) used the case of outsourcing of writing support to tutors in Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia by a professor in Texas, discussing how writing scholars can "foreground the many contexts-globalized and institutional, material and ideological-under which twenty-first century [writing support] labor practices may take place" (266). Scott (2016) used the case of outsourcing to make a larger point about the political economy of internationalization, stating that "[u]nder neoliberal political economic reorganization, global economies have seen a forty-year trend toward the privatization of everything from local mail delivery to national security and intelligence to public education" (13).…”

Section: Understanding Local-global Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Focusing on International Graduate Students

Sharma

2019

jis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this brief editorial essay, the author points out a lack of focus on graduate-level international students in research and scholarship in the United States. Highlighting a few potential contributing factors behind the gap, he suggests a number of important issues and perspectives that the scholarship needs to explore as it advances the discourse on the graduate segment of international students. He concludes by calling for a transdisciplinary field of scholarship focusing on international students in general, with a viable subspecialization on the graduate students.

show abstract

Disposable Drudgery: Outsourcing Goes to College

Cited by 2 publications

References 0 publications

“If I Don’t Do It, Somebody Else Will”: Covert Neoliberal Policy Discourses in the Decision‐Making Processes of an Intensive English Program

“If I Don’t Do It, Somebody Else Will”: Covert Neoliberal Policy Discourses in the Decision‐Making Processes of an Intensive English Program

Focusing on International Graduate Students

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About