Beyond the Pandemic Pedagogy of Managerialism: Exploring the Limits of Online Teaching and Learning

This book analyses how growing managerialism and the marketisation of higher education has undermined educational standards and pedagogical integrity. Specifically, it provides a thorough critique of ways the pandemic, and the move to online learning and MOOCs, has reinforced these developments. The book outlines the bounds of recent managerialism, which is replacing vital mass with a culture of compliance in higher education.

Employing an ethnographic approach, the book explores the have an effect on of the sudden shift in teaching delivery from in-person to online for instance, the changing role of the PhD supervisor all over the pandemic, and the have an effect on on students’ willingness to have interaction and their (in)visibility in the school room, and further considers how these have an effect on class interactions, social relationships and learning. In the end, this book argues that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the bounds of marketisation of education and revealed the distorted managerial response to a crisis.