scholarly journals Neoliberalism Within Psychology Higher Education in Indonesia: A Critical Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teguh Wijaya Mulya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Political Economic

Critical scholars have demonstrated the ways in which neoliberalism has increasingly become a dominant organising principle in current global political, economic, and social practices, including in higher education. This article aims to explore how and to what extent neo-liberal discourses have operated in a specific context, namely, in psychology higher education in Indonesia. To this end, the author examined policy documents published by relevant authorities such as AP2TPI, Dirjen DIKTI, and BAN-PT; and reflect on how those policies were enacted in the author’s 10-year experience as a psychology lecturer in a university in Indonesia. The results show that neoliberal discourses such as standardisation, competitiveness, and market orientation have underpinned the policies, curricula, and practices of psychology higher education in Indonesia. The author argues that such discourses (re)produce psychology students, graduates, and lecturers who are competitive, result-oriented, and market-driven. Consequently, democratic, humane, and organic ways of learning and practicing psychology have given way to more mechanistic, standardised, and box-ticking approaches to human behaviour.

The Market-Driven Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Mike Chanslor ◽  
Janet Buzzard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
Certificate Programs ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Economic Landscape ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Workforce Needs

This chapter explores the current demographic and political/economic landscape of higher education and offers possible responses to challenges of retaining a useful, modern liberal arts perspective that addresses the needs of a career readiness emphasis. These responses include the possible compression of higher education through more efficient curricula design and delivery, partnerships with high schools to help build career pathways for traditional students, and the offering of alternative micro-credentials, such as certificate programs. The importance of aligning higher education with workforce needs is also addressed.

The Student Affairs Profession in the Academic Marketplace

NASPA Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan B. Hirt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Student Affairs Professionals ◽  
Academic Affairs ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Principles Of Good Practice ◽  
The Way

This essay compares the narratives that have emerged in recent years to describe the higher education enterprise with the narratives used to describe student affairs’ endeavors. I posit that the way in which student affairs professionals present their agenda is out of sync with the market-driven culture of the academy. The seven Principles of Good Practice are used to illustrate the incongruence between student affairs and academic affairs narratives on campus. I offer ways that those Principles can be recast to be more closely aligned with the new academic marketplace.

Global Sport

2018 ◽  
pp. 596-612
Author(s):  
Richard Giulianotti
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Future Research ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Sociocultural Issues ◽  
The Olympic Games

World sport often appears as one of the most powerful illustrations of globalization in action. This chapter provides a critical analysis of global sport. Four major areas of research and debate on global sport are examined: political–economic issues, centering particularly on the commercial growth of sport and inequalities between different regions; global sport mega-events such as the Olympic Games or World Cup finals in football; the emergence and institutionalization of the global sport for development and peace; and sociocultural issues, notably the importance of global sport to diverse and shifting forms of identity and belonging. Concluding recommendations are provided on areas for future research into global sport.

When do firms implement corporate social responsibility? A study of the Spanish construction and real-estate sector

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus Cambra-Fierro ◽  
Alan Wilson ◽  
Yolanda Polo-Redondo ◽  
Ana Fuster-Mur ◽  
Maria Eugenia Lopez-Perez
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Real Estate Industry ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Real Estate Sector ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine firms’ adoption of corporate social responsibility activities and the efficacy of such activities in specific contexts and industries. This paper analyses the specific context of the Spanish construction and real-estate industry. By using a longitudinal multi-case approach, the study suggests links between market orientation and corporate social responsibility. The research also identifies two profiles of firms. The first group, which is proactive (e.g., market oriented), demonstrate altruistic concerns about consumers and corporate social responsibility; for the second, which is more reactive, their concerns about corporate social responsibility are more opportunistic and aimed at attracting additional customers or responding to competitive pressures.

How education standards gain hegemonic power and become international: The case of higher education and the Bologna Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Brøgger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Block Structure ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
National Context ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Soft Governance ◽  
The Bologna Process ◽  
Communication Paths

Through an ethnographic exploration of policy documents, this paper aims to expose how outcome-oriented education standards gained international hegemonic status in the Bologna Process. Taking inspiration in the concept of hegemony and by connecting the invisible power of hegemony to soft governance, the paper shows how the outcome-based modular curriculum gained hegemonic power by means of the infrastructure of the reform. Centring on the movement from political agendas within the Bologna Process to the implementation in a national context using Denmark as a case, the paper tracks the transformation from an input- and content-driven curriculum to an outcome- and objectives-driven curriculum and the transition from a semestrial timeframe structure to a modular block structure. The paper shows how consent and legitimisation is manufactured through the infrastructure of the Bologna Process consisting of communication paths, standardisation and follow-up mechanisms such as benchmarking through graphs and frameworks for reporting.

scholarly journals Energy Poverty and Sustainable Economic Development: An Exploration of Correlations and Interdependencies in European Countries

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7640
Author(s):  
Blanka Tundys ◽  
Agnieszka Bretyn ◽  
Maciej Urbaniak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Energy And Climate Policy

The problem of energy poverty exists in practically every European country. Its size and scope are determined by a variety of factors, ranging from economic development to the direction of energy and climate policy implementation to cultural factors. Our aim in this paper was to carry out a comparative analysis of indicators related to energy poverty and sustainable development to identify correlations and links between the two issues and determine how they are related. The fact that the analysis was performed for most European countries is new and represents a broad spectrum of research; we were not limited to studies of countries bound by formal political-economic arrangements or by consideration of the degree of economic development. This approach enabled explication of how diverse the situation is in Europe. The research methods used included a critical analysis of the literature and the use of descriptive and mathematical-statistical tools. The main conclusions and findings of the analysis were that in some countries in economically developed Europe, energy poverty is a major problem, and that, in this respect, there are large differences between “old European Union” and “new European Union” countries, and in the countries that do not belong to political-economic structures in Europe. It is clear, from the research, which countries are rapidly and effectively reducing their energy poverty problems and which factors are the determinants of this. These results are linked to the new direction of energy policy and the shift towards more environmentally friendly energy use. In conclusion, it has been possible to identify the causes of energy poverty and how the energy poverty situation in Europe is changing.

scholarly journals The Educational Social Practices and their metaphors. Approaches to a reconstruction of meanings from critical perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
Néstor Horacio Cecchi ◽  
◽  
Fabricio Oyarbide ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings

For those of us who have been going through the public university for decades, a clear tendency in most of our institutions to rethink their senses, their missions, their functions, in sum: their must be. In these times and these contexts in which deep inequalities are made visible with absolute clarity, these tendencies to construct new meanings acquire a particular relevance. We understand that public universities in the exercise of their autonomy and as members of the State, must assume a leading role with a contribution that contributes to guaranteeing rights, in particular, of the subalternized sectors. This critical positioning is inescapable to consolidate the social commitment of our higher education institutios. This compelling transformative intention has a valuable background. In this sense, we warn that both in Argentina and in some of the countries of the Region, tendencies to consolidate, systematize, institutionalize processes of emancipatory articulation in their relations with the territory, organizations and social movements have been reproduced for some years, many of them, through curricularization processes in its different meanings. These experiences, dissimilar by the way, find the need to settle, to institutionalize themselves through various conformations that in some cases converge in Educational Social Practices or similar names, with different, unique formats, but with different meanings as well. That is why we propose to display, analyze, make visible some of the salient characteristics of these processes, the regulations, their singularities, similarities, the multiplicity of their feelings, in sum, their metaphors.

scholarly journals The education skills trap in a dependent market economy. Romania’s case in the 2000s

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Tarlea ◽  
Annette Freyberg-Inan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Empirical Insight

We discuss the political economic development of Romania since 1989, with a focus on the evolution of higher education (HE). First, we place this evolution in the context of demand for HE by prospective students and employers, focusing on the low demand for skills in the MNC-dominated Romanian economy. Second, we provide empirical insight on indicators of quality, enrolment, and funding as key features of the HE system. We argue that Romania has evolved into a dependent market economy entrenched in a low-skills equilibrium, and that the weakness of the HE system is a key element in this process.

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