- Title
- Neoliberalism’s conditioning effects on the university and the example of proctoring during COVID-19 and since
- Creator
- McKenna, Sioux
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/426929
- Identifier
- vital:72401
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2022.2100612"
- Description
- Neoliberalism has shaped the academy in ways that constrain its potential as a public good. Neoliberalism is based on the assumption that, by submitting to the so-called neutral forces of the market, wealth can be created alongside the achievement of equality and efficiency. Although this assumption is demonstrably false, neoliberalism remains politically powerful. As an example, this article discusses how neoliberalism has enabled the rapid uptake of proctoring software during the covid pandemic and since. ‘Proctoring' is the online monitoring of students’ behaviour as they sit for exams. Many within the academy consider proctoring software to be dehumanizing – essentially legalized spyware. They argue that the software invades privacy and is inherently racist and ableist, amongst other things. It is hoped that by understanding how structural forces such as neoliberalism affect both our agency and university activities, frequently against the common good, strategies can be developed to change these structures.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (15 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Critical Realism, McKenna, S., 2022. Neoliberalism’s conditioning effects on the university and the example of proctoring during COVID-19 and since. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(5), pp.502-515, Journal of Critical Realism volume 21 number 5 p. 502 2022 1572-5138
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- Rights
- Closed Access
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