Employability as Exploitability: A Marxist Critical Pedagogy

Pal, Maïa

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“…For critical educators, giving increasing prominence to employability as an intended outcome undermines the emancipatory potential of higher education, disconnecting academia from "larger civic issues and social problems" (Giroux, 2014, p. 17). Maïa Pal (2022) argues that rather than being peripheral to the neoliberal agenda, employability is central to its transformation of higher education and, by extension, wider society. That the wholesale and uncritical adoption of market ideology would serve to reify the language and norms of latecapitalist exploitation is an issue that must not be taken lightly -but is not the point of being a critical educator that we do not do anything uncritically?…”

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Critical educators should embrace the employability agenda.

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Graduate employability, as a desirable outcome of higher education, is a concept that is widely opposed by educators who practice critical pedagogy. Employability, it is argued, reinforces capitalist expectations, exemplifying the anti-democratic hollowing out of education over the last four decades. The central argument of this essay is that employability is not a concept that educators can ignore. Indeed, inherent in the development of desirable graduate attributes and employability skills, there are opportunities for critical educators to support students in the development of their social awareness and sense of civic autonomy. This essay will further argue that educators who seek to opt out of the employability agenda are failing to live up to their own values of seeking a truly equal partnership of learning with their students.

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Section: What Is Employability and How Have Critical Educators Respon...mentioning

confidence: 99%