Putting<i>Homo Economicus</i>to the Test

Slater, Graham; Seawright, Gardner

doi:10.1002/9781119082316.ch18

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“…These larger systemic changes also prompted the creation of accountability and ranking structures heavily based on large‐scale surveys and data (Ewell, 2010; Slater & Seawright, 2018). Major donors funded the creation and expansion of national survey systems to help quantify, measure, and monitor activities to advance the accountability movement (Beer, 2015).…”

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The devil in the details: How high‐impact practices can miss the mark

Museus

LePeau

2023

New Drctns for Student Srvcs

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Higher education researchers and practitioners increasingly rely on high‐impact practices in their efforts to promote success among diverse college students. In this chapter, we discuss the dangers of uncritically adopting one‐size‐fits‐all notions of high‐impact practices, and we underscore the need to meaningfully consider culture and identity in efforts to design and deliver such initiatives in equitable ways. We also offer five common misconceptions that inhibit advancing more equitable conversations about high‐impact practices.

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Section: Historical Context Of High‐impact Practices Discoursementioning

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The devil in the details: How high‐impact practices can miss the mark

Museus

LePeau

2023

New Drctns for Student Srvcs

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“…‘ Universities can set the standards way too high and that can lead to people over-working themselves ’ [Female, Asian, Undergraduate Y2+, Home Student] ; ‘ There is a culture and expectation that you have to be working all the time ’ [Female, White, Postgraduate, Home Student] . Where performance outcomes are discursively inscribed with personal characteristics relating to individual ethico-economic choices, taking a break is disciplined as a personal moral failing (Slater & Seawright, 2018).…”

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The Epistemology and Ethics of Analysing Lived Experience Data: A Pragmatic Foucauldian-Informed Approach to Coproducing Student Mental Health Initiatives in the Neoliberal University

Priestley,

Mazzoli-Smith

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Analysis of lived experience data is increasingly advocated as an enabling strategy to inform ethical and effective policy and practice, particularly in the university mental health field. However, where Michel Foucault’s work is often drawn on to frame subjectivity of lived experience in the neoliberal university, this brings forth epistemological, methodological, and ethical tensions in using student voice to inform changes in mental health policy and practice. In Foucauldian terms, a double bind emerges wherein the power of student voice to destabilise existing forms of mental health knowledge and to reimagine the distress-inducing power structures within the neoliberal university are recuperated to (re)produce the same neoliberal structures and subjectivities. Drawing on data from 10 student focus groups, this study explores the epistemic, methodological, and ethical questions attached to analysis of student lived experience data in the context of a Foucauldian-informed understanding of the neoliberal university. It is argued that in pragmatist terms, whilst student voice must be contextualised within the socio-material and socio-psychological context of the neoliberal system to ensure beneficial consequences for student experience, a Foucauldian approach to interpreting lived experience data can also re-empower the subject with the freedom to resist and disrupt the reproduction of mentally unhealthy structures within the neoliberal system as part of a whole university approach.

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“When I was a kid:” Childhood memories, care work, and becoming mom

Kromidas

2021

Subjectivity

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PuttingHomo Economicusto the Test

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

The devil in the details: How high‐impact practices can miss the mark

The devil in the details: How high‐impact practices can miss the mark

The Epistemology and Ethics of Analysing Lived Experience Data: A Pragmatic Foucauldian-Informed Approach to Coproducing Student Mental Health Initiatives in the Neoliberal University

“When I was a kid:” Childhood memories, care work, and becoming mom

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