The Teaching Excellence Framework: Perpetual Pedagogical Control in Postwelfare Capitalism

Heaney, Conor; Mackenzie, Hollie

doi:10.21100/compass.v10i2.488

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“…The management followed Taylor's good-old recommendation of management as the missionary fighting "soldiering". The identity of the professors as the individuals who take full responsibility for their work was challenged, and management asked the students-customers to give feedback on the faculty's performance [96]. Did student evaluations improve teaching?…”

Section: Political By Designmentioning

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Think Twice: First for Tech, Then for Ed

Photopoulos

Triantis

2022

SN COMPUT. SCI.

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The embodiment of technology in education can make learning easier, more enjoyable, and more accessible. From Learning Machines to artificial intelligence (AI), educational technology has repeatedly tested its strength as an aider or a substitute to in-person teaching. During the COVID-19 pandemic international organisations promoted the idea of the transformation of education using technology. Comparison of their texts published in 2020 with texts published in 2021 indicates that much of the early enthusiasm concerning the transition from in-person to remote learning gave its position to more thoughtful accounts after considering the learning losses and students’ disappointment from the disruption of in-person relationships. This publication highlights aspects of education technology usually overlooked in futuristic accounts of education. Adopting a non-deterministic view of technology attempts to contribute to the more human-centred incorporation of technologies in education.

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Section: Political By Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Think Twice: First for Tech, Then for Ed

Photopoulos

Triantis

2022

SN COMPUT. SCI.

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“…17 Maybe they tried to fight the idea of some that reforms in HE are not about advancing teaching or learning, but about getting higher fees. 18 From the point of view of students as consumers, and this affects also their employment, if universities are set to give students all that they perceived they paid for, we are making them dependent to all those outcomes the University owes them; are these 'consumer rights-inflated' students what society needs? 19 University teachers are really stressed about results such as NSS scores, 20 and get their managers on their case quite often.…”

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New challenges in the UK Legal Education landscape: TEF, SQE and the Law Teacher

Canto-Lopez

2018

REJIE

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A recent series of changes in Higher Education in general, and legal education, in particular, are altering the environment in which law teachers in the UK are used to work. This paper will mention two particular initiatives: on the one hand, the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) a Government and market focussed scheme to drive up the standard of teaching and to provide information to students about the best provision of teaching. On the other hand, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) new proposed Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). The SQE is also entangled in market forces, employability and consumer choices, it pretends to end with the inconsistencies in law degrees and trainings offered at the moment; and to help social mobility in the profession. Both initiatives have been received with opposition by many parties that contend their reasons and data are flawed. In any case, both initiatives are affecting law teachers that as a consequence have lately being faced with new demands by students, employers and university managers. We conclude with the assertion that nowadays in the UK many law teachers are confronted with many pressures, numerous unanswered questions and no space to voice their concerns on a rapidly changing legal education landscape.

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“…see Harney & Moten, 2013). There is also an emerging body of work specifically on the TEF which reveal its links to the neo-liberal post-welfare state (Heaney & Mackenzie, 2017), its fallacies (Frankham, 2017) and inherent dangers (Forstenzer, 2016).…”

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The Teaching Excellence Framework: symbolic violence and the measured market in higher education

Tomlinson

Enders

Naidoo

2018

Critical Studies in Education

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In English higher education, the Teaching Excellence Framework represents a very significant recent policy lever in the continued operation of a measured market in the sector. Conceived as a policy to enhance and make further transparent the quality of teaching, it utilises a variety of key measurements to establish sets of related outcomes upon which effective teaching can be assessed. Drawing upon Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence and adopting policy framing as an analytical approach, we illustrate how the Teaching Excellence Framework and its related discursive techniques are significant in (re)producing the institutional conditions which enable market policy to operate effectively. The article focuses specifically on three core pillars of the marketisation project of English higher education that are strongly affirmed: the further enactment of students as consumers and universities as producers, the related pre-occupation with graduates' employability and future returns and the uncritical application of metrics to signify institutions' performance value. We show how misrecognition operates by a market policy cloaking itself under the guise of student empowerment and quality, and call for academic and political practices that forge acts of resistance.

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The Teaching Excellence Framework: Perpetual Pedagogical Control in Postwelfare Capitalism

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Think Twice: First for Tech, Then for Ed

Think Twice: First for Tech, Then for Ed

New challenges in the UK Legal Education landscape: TEF, SQE and the Law Teacher

The Teaching Excellence Framework: symbolic violence and the measured market in higher education

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