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The McDonaldization of higher education revisited.
- Hdl Handle:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622598
- Title:
- The McDonaldization of higher education revisited.
- Authors:
- Abstract:
- Since The McDonaldization of Higher Education was published in 2002 the McDonaldizing processes of efficiency, predictability, reliability and control seem to have come to dominate universities throughout the world through turning students into consumers who buy degrees made up of bite-sized, credit-rated modules, subjecting universities to the requirements of national and global league tables and re-constructing lecturers as facilitators of the ‘student experience’. The success of university management in restructuring universities as McBusinesses is premised on a seeming contradiction. As universities have been McDonaldized they have spontaneously embraced therapy culture and have become therapeutic universities. The therapeutic approach towards students adopted by management was supported by academics who failed to see or challenge the new student-centred culture. Therapy Culture was not contradictory but complementary to the ruthless McDonaldization of universities. Discussions of the marketization and bureaucratization of higher education have been ineffectual in terms of understanding the importance of the therapeutic turn and therefore have not been able to cohere any effective resistance to McDonaldization. Taking our previous work forward, we examine the ineluctable connection between the forces leading to McDonaldization and the therapeutic turn and how they are leading to the McDonaldization of the student soul.
- Affiliation:
- Citation:
- Hayes, D, and Wynyard, R. (2016) The McDonaldization of Higher Education Revisited, in Cote, J. (Ed) Routledge Handbook of the Sociology Higher Education, London and New York: Routledge.
- Publisher:
- Issue Date:
- 2-Jun-2016
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622598
- Additional Links:
- https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Sociology-of-Higher-Education/Cote-Furlong/p/book/9781138778122
- Type:
- Book chapter
- Language:
- en
- ISBN:
- 9781138778122
- Sponsors:
- N/A
- Appears in Collections:
- Institute of Education
Full metadata record
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Hayes, Dennis | en |
dc.contributor.author | Wynyard, Robin | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-13T08:22:53Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-13T08:22:53Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-06-02 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Hayes, D, and Wynyard, R. (2016) The McDonaldization of Higher Education Revisited, in Cote, J. (Ed) Routledge Handbook of the Sociology Higher Education, London and New York: Routledge. | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781138778122 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622598 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Since The McDonaldization of Higher Education was published in 2002 the McDonaldizing processes of efficiency, predictability, reliability and control seem to have come to dominate universities throughout the world through turning students into consumers who buy degrees made up of bite-sized, credit-rated modules, subjecting universities to the requirements of national and global league tables and re-constructing lecturers as facilitators of the ‘student experience’. The success of university management in restructuring universities as McBusinesses is premised on a seeming contradiction. As universities have been McDonaldized they have spontaneously embraced therapy culture and have become therapeutic universities. The therapeutic approach towards students adopted by management was supported by academics who failed to see or challenge the new student-centred culture. Therapy Culture was not contradictory but complementary to the ruthless McDonaldization of universities. Discussions of the marketization and bureaucratization of higher education have been ineffectual in terms of understanding the importance of the therapeutic turn and therefore have not been able to cohere any effective resistance to McDonaldization. Taking our previous work forward, we examine the ineluctable connection between the forces leading to McDonaldization and the therapeutic turn and how they are leading to the McDonaldization of the student soul. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | N/A | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
dc.relation.url | https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Sociology-of-Higher-Education/Cote-Furlong/p/book/9781138778122 | en |
dc.subject | McDonaldization | en |
dc.subject | Higher education | en |
dc.subject | Therapeutic university | en |
dc.title | The McDonaldization of higher education revisited. | en |
dc.type | Book chapter | en |
dc.contributor.department | University of Derby | en |
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