EDPR 6011 - The academic profession: challenges and changes in higher education
| Type: | Optional unit of study |
| Staff: | A Brew, A Welch |
| Assessment: | Paper and presentation |
| Unit outline: | Download full unit outline (pdf file) |
This unit aims to introduce students to some of the major changes occurring in higher education, and the specific ways in which this is changing the academic profession. The unit is based on a learning contract and participants choose from topics which include the pluralization and fracturing of knowledge(s); the increasing internationalisation and globalisation of higher education; the changes from elite to mass higher education; demographic dimensions of the professoriate; changes in teaching and learning in higher education, including the impact of virtual pedagogy; the increasing commodification of higher education, knowledge and the professoriate; and the simultaneous increase in regulation and de-regulation of higher education and the profession, via mechanisms such as ‘steering at a distance’.
