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Incorporating care and compassion into the neoliberal academy
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, Volume: 35, Issue: 35, Pages: 1 - 9
Swansea University Author:
Sarah Crook
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DOI (Published version): 10.47408/jldhe.vi35.1338
Abstract
UK policymakers advocate compassionate pedagogical processes. However, the longstanding commitment to neoliberal higher education principles have produced, and indeed necessitate, inequality, conflict, and a lack of interpersonal care. We argue that compassionate academic processes demand holistic s...
| Published in: | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education |
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| ISSN: | 1759-667X |
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Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69193 |
| Abstract: |
UK policymakers advocate compassionate pedagogical processes. However, the longstanding commitment to neoliberal higher education principles have produced, and indeed necessitate, inequality, conflict, and a lack of interpersonal care. We argue that compassionate academic processes demand holistic structural and discursive shifts that decentre competitive individualism and foreground care of oneself and others. To do this, we advocate recognition of and resistance to ‘care-less’ neoliberal discourses, with a ‘care-full’ co-production of relational learning environments that are psychologically safe, culturally and emotionally responsive, and structurally accessible. |
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| Keywords: |
compassion, neoliberalism, assessment |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Funders: |
ESRC/MRC/AHRC - MR/X002810/1 |
| Issue: |
35 |
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1 |
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9 |