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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers a detailed, multidisciplinary view on the radical changes in higher education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters carefully investigate how the pandemic led to massive disruption in the sector, examining the contentious politics involved, and managerial and policy changes that stemmed from this unprecedented crisis.
Dually focused on recent events and imminent futures, this insightful book addresses questions raised about the nature of post-pandemic learning, for instance interrogating digital changes and their permanency. Institutional changes are observed on three different levels: micro, meso and macro. Ultimately this book successfully recounts past events and hypothesizes potential future developments within the sector.
Building the Post-Pandemic University will be crucial for students engaging in critical university studies, education policy, digital sociology and higher education studies. It will also be of interest for university policy makers seeking to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the higher education system.
Trade Review‘Wow! Carrigan, Moscovitz, Martini and Robertson have gone straight to the cutting edge. Starting from the down curve of the pandemic and with a close eye on the digital, they take us all the way through the algorithmic academy and out the other side. Never has the neoliberal university looked more dated and inadequate; and these chapters show that while post-truth conspiracies, ecological blindness, platform capitalists and big five publishers loom ever larger the potentials of knowledge socialism are continuing and irrepressible. As Michael Peters says in his foreword, “there is always the contestation, dissent, and creative appropriation of technology that keeps the idea of the university alive.”’ -- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK
‘Building the Post-Pandemic University
is one of those rare scholarly achievements consolidated at a time of considerable transformation both in global political cultures and in the way we comprehend “crises” in and through Higher Education (HE). How are universities meant to re-imagine and respond to multiple political crises, both manufactured and real, and most particularly after a global pandemic? This collection, edited by a very fine set of transdisciplinary scholars seeking to comprehend HE, crises and transformation, represents a one of a kind account of the university seeking to rebuild itself in the face of a global pandemic. Its many contributions sound out the complexity of such an unexpected task and elicit creative scholarly ways to imagine such a thing called the post-pandemic university. It is timely, absorbing and provides a genuine contribution to Sociology, the Humanities, the Arts and to all those interested in how to comprehend the very notion of a university in a post-pandemic world. This book will not disappoint.’ -- Jo-Anne Dillabough, University of Cambridge, UK
‘This book is as important as it is timely. For higher education sectors to move forwards – and take their workforces along with them - the contours and legacies of the pandemic need to be much better understood. The contributors to this sensitively curated volume bring insight and evidence about what really happened to higher learning during Covid. The collection is more than the sum of its chapters; it goes beyond critique to offer a shared blueprint for what might come next. The neoliberal university embraces individualism and entrepreneurialism in the name of competition; this collection prompts us to advocate for a new settlement based on fairer and more humane values.’ -- Steven Jones, University of Manchester, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword: Biopolitics, truth, and collective intelligence in the era of viral modernity xv Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University Introduction to Building the Post-Pandemic University 1 Mark A. Carrigan, Hannah Moscovitz, Michele Martini and Susan L. Robertson PART I IMAGINING THE POST-PANDEMIC UNIVERSITY 1 Scenarios as a device for forming common futures: plurality and the post-pandemic university 20 Matt Finch and Richard Sandford 2 Really useful knowledge in a postdigital age 38 Petar Jandrić 3 The cloud campus: imagining and investing in the digital future of higher education 60 Ben Williamson 4 Ghosts in the machine: re-imagining the digital as a new form of materiality for post-pandemic education 78 Annouchka Bayley 5 The future of online learning and higher education in the post-pandemic world 92 Anastasia Olga (Olnancy) Tzirides, Matthew Montebello, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis PART II CONTESTING THE POST-PANDEMIC UNIVERSITY 6 Re-imagining hybrid pedagogies: lessons from the pandemic using the Diffusion of Innovation model 111 Emma Thirkell and Dale Munday 7 Expectations of Ecuadorian higher education in a time of uncertainty: a comparison between the perceptions of students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020/21) 136 Anne Carr, Monica Martinez and Patricia Ortega 8 The plague years in Australian higher education 169 Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas and Ben Whitburn 9 Tweeting the pandemic: universities and epistemic leadership in times of crisis 186 Michele Martini 10 Technocultural politics of the academic office in the age of endemic COVID-19 and what follows 202 Jeremy Hunsinger PART III MATERIALIZING THE POST-PANDEMIC UNIVERSITY 11 Enacting Compassion during the pandemic: academic staff experiences of a No Detriment Policy on pass/fail assessment 217 Vikki Hill 12 Post-pandemic expressions of (digital) ujamaa: the case of the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) 235 Maryam Jaffar Ismail, Said A.S. Yunus and Michael Gallagher 13 Let’s change the narrative: using podcasting to plot(twist) the future of the university 257 Simone Eringfeld 14 The rules that govern digital learning spaces: how learning platforms regulate the way we teach 276 Bernd Justin Jütte and Giulia Schneider 15 The varieties of online learning experience: a study of the infodemic 293 J.J. Sylvia IV Conclusion to Building the Post-Pandemic University 310 Mark A. Carrigan, Hannah Moscovitz, Michele Martini and Susan L. Robertson Index
