Adam, Raoul J. (2012) Conceptualising the epistemic dimension of academic identity in an age of Neo-liberalism. Education Research and Perspectives, 39. pp. 70-89.

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Abstract

This paper explores the epistemic dimension of neoliberalism in the context of higher education. Much critical commentary depicts neoliberalism negatively in terms of knowledge commodification, marketisation, productivity agendas, accountability regimes, bureaucratisation, economic rationalism and micro-managerialism. The paper offers a conceptual model (Binary Epistemic Model) to theorise the implicit epistemic conflict between some academic identities and the neoliberal paradigm. The model is used to support a paradoxical two-part thesis: (1) that neoliberalism, in its naïve form, is a threat to the necessary epistemological diversity of the academy, and (2) that epistemological diversity has a space, albeit a contested space, for neoliberal identities and ways of knowing. The premise for the model is that it offers a dialectical and evaluativistic way of understanding the influence of neoliberalism in the academy.

Item ID:	23119
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	0311-2543
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Date Deposited:	30 Aug 2012 20:58
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