Teaching Online: Issues of Equity and Access in Writing-centric Formats
In: Feminist studies: FS, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 502-509
ISSN: 2153-3873
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In: Feminist studies: FS, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 502-509
ISSN: 2153-3873
In: Radical teacher: a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching, Band 110, S. 14-24
ISSN: 1941-0832
Conversations about the state of higher education in the US are increasingly attuned to the predatory practices of for-profit colleges. The essay offers a critical retrospective engagement with my experience teaching at a for-profit institution of higher education. It provides a theorization of what I found to be a "customer service orientation"--a distinctive expectation the college has about how instructors interact with their students, as well as a skill instructors are asked to foster in students. After briefly outlining the institution's spatial configuration and how that supports its customer service orientation, I focus on two aspects of the for-profit educational experience: 1) the classroom experience within a generic sociology course, where students and I worked against the customer service orientation; and 2) a close reading of a course textbook assigned to all incoming students, which reveals most clearly the dual operations of neoliberal individualism and a customer service orientation. The classroom scenes detailed in this essay depict the complex and calculated negotiations of teachers and students with academic capitalism.
In: NWSA journal: a publication of the National Women's Studies Association, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 192-198
ISSN: 1527-1889