When learning becomes a fetish: the pledge, turn and prestige of magic tricks
Bainbridge, A. and Gaitanidis, A. and Hoult, Elizabeth (2017) When learning becomes a fetish: the pledge, turn and prestige of magic tricks. Pedagogy, Culture & Society , ISSN 1468-1366.
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Abstract
It is our contention that the process of higher education could be read as a commodity and in both Marxian and Freudian assumptions, a fetish. Instrumental in this discussion are; Marx’s theorising of the commodity fetish (1867) that deceives by conflating the distinction between use and exchange value, and Freud’s (1927) re-visiting of his theory of fetishism, where he considers the fetish in the context of dealing with separation and loss in everyday life. This paper highlights how the consequence of fetishised behaviour has led to violent outcomes, such as the policy decision to introduce a ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’ (TEF). We argue that the TEF may bring about the death of learning in HE and diminish the role of academic staff. Nevertheless, influenced by Winnicott, Cixous and Biesta, we offer a more hopeful ‘Teaching that is Good Enough Framework’. Keywords: Fetish, Commodity fetish, Higher Education, Teaching, Learning, TEF.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Social Change and Transformation in HE, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Elizabeth Hoult |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2017 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:37 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20627 |
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