Title
Pedagogically sound responses to economic rationalism
Abstract
Economic rationalism, which rests decision-making power with market forces, has established a ubiquitous presence on a global scale. Certainly, educational administrators are feeling the effects of economic rationalist policies and in turn make managerial decisions that reflect this essence to the practising academic and, ultimately, to the classroom. The effect is often one of despair. Teaching - long pitted against other roles of the academic, such as research - now faces additional threats from the pressures to operate in this environment, often regarded as antagonistic to the traditional values of liberal university education. This paper discusses the nature of economic rationalism using the Australian context as an example, and presents some means by which teaching in computer science may respond to this threat in pedagogically sound ways. Such negotiations are essential in approaching a future for CS education in which this policy context is almost guaranteed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1145/331795.331845
technical symposium on computer science education
Keywords
Field
DocType
decision-making power,pedagogically sound response,liberal university education,economic rationalism,educational administrator,policy context,economic rationalist policy,cs education,computer science,additional threat,australian context,assessment,communication skills,technical writing
Technical writing,Rationalism,Software engineering,Computer science,Knowledge management,Market forces,Traditional values,Environmental ethics,Liberalism,Economic rationalism,Feeling,Negotiation
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISBN
32
1
1-58113-213-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tony Greening18623.42