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590001 SE Educational theorizing (2025S)

Higher education, research ethics, and academic work in the contemporary University

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 59 - Doktoratsstudium Bildungswissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
Fr 14.03. 13:15-16:30 Medien-und Methodenlabor Sensengasse 3a 2.OG

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 15 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 28.03. 13:15 - 16:30 Medien-und Methodenlabor Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
  • Friday 11.04. 13:15 - 16:30 Medien-und Methodenlabor Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
  • Friday 09.05. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
  • Friday 23.05. 13:15 - 16:30 Medien-und Methodenlabor Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
  • Friday 06.06. 13:15 - 16:30 Medien-und Methodenlabor Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
  • Friday 27.06. 13:15 - 16:30 Medien-und Methodenlabor Sensengasse 3a 2.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course is open for all doctoral students.

HIGHER EDUCATION, RESEARCH ETHICS, AND ACADEMIC WORK IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY

Course contents:

The university is a peculiar place: it can both instill a love of learning and constrain new ways of thinking. The aim of this course is to provide a forum to discuss current issues in higher education and to raise questions concerning the meaning of academic work in the contemporary university. The course begins with an introductory session to give a short overview of the course contents and to provide some background to the history of the university and its changing role in society. This will be followed by five thematic sessions, in which we will deal with issues concerning the university in contemporary society in a neo-liberal and neo-nationalist world; current critiques of higher education and proposed alternatives (including slow sciences); the positioning of the educational sciences within higher education; science, advocacy, and the figure of the public academic and/or academic-activist; and ideas of authorship, ownership, and creativity, as well as developments callenging these ideas. We will wrap up the course with a roundtable on the future of higher education.

Aims and objectives:

1. Obtain knowledge regarding various topical and theoretical issues regarding the field of higher education.
2. Develop an understanding of the complex nature of the university as a site of learning and knowledge production.
3. Ability to read, reflect upon, and discuss research literature.
4. Ability to perform smaller assignments, present preliminary results, and put results into written form.
5. Ability to actively participate in seminar discussions and to provide feedback in both written and oral form.

Methods: Discussion, group work, hands-on exercises, mutual peer-reviewing.

Further details regarding course organization will be provided via Moodle.

Assessment and permitted materials

• Reflective prompts and notes on seven sessions: 40 credits
• Participation in roundtable: 20 credits
• Smaller assignments during the course including peer review: 40 credits
• Other participation will be counted positively into the final assessment.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

• Mandatory attendance. Students may miss max. 3 clock hours (without valid excuse).
• It is mandatory to upload the required assignments.
• Participation and work on assignments should be in line with good scientific practice. The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for producing texts is only allowed when explicitly demanded by the teacher (for example, to work on specific assignments).

60 credits and the submission of the written assignments are needed to pass the course.

1 (sehr gut) 100-90 credits
2 (gut) 89-81 credits
3 (befriedigend) 80-71 credits
4 (genügend) 70-60 credits
5 (nicht genügend) 59-0 credits

Examination topics

Course material and material collected by participants

Reading list

A more detailed list of literature as well as reading instructions will be provided on Moodle:

Isabelle Stengers, “‘Another Science is Possible’: A Plea for Slow Science”: https://hcommons.org/?get_group_doc=1003678/1700760973-AnotherScienceIsPossible_A-IsabelleStengers.pdf (chapter 5)
Martin Savransky, The Adventure of Relevance: An Ethics of Social Inquiry: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-57146-5 (one or two chapters)
Alison Mountz et al., For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University: https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1058/1141
Article/chapter by Sheila Slaughter/Gary Rhoades on academic capitalism/neoliberal university
Chapter from book by John Aubrey Douglass on neo-nationalism in higher education: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12609/neo-nationalism-and-universities?srsltid=AfmBOopigTxzHa274FMmGepWRLJmyUS_WKLD4r6tGC30GcLgHMQbW7P8

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