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Publication Date: 2012
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The Contradictions of Policy and Practice: Creativity in Higher Education
MacLaren, Iain
London Review of Education, v10 n2 p159-172 2012
Whilst much of the rhetoric of current educational policy champions creativity and innovation, structural reforms and new management practices in higher education run counter to the known conditions under which creativity flourishes. As a review of recent literature suggests, surveillance, performativity, the end of tenure and rising levels of workplace stress are all closing off the space for real creative endeavour, characterised as it is by risk-taking, collaborative exploration and autonomy. Innovation, as conceived in this policy context (i.e., that of the UK and Ireland), is narrow in scope and leaves little room for critical re-examination of the nature of education itself or radical reconceptions of curriculum, raising the question as to whether such are more likely to arise "extra mural," from new forms of organisation. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Role of Education, School Role, Educational Policy, Goal Orientation, Creativity, Innovation, Research, Institutional Environment, Adoption (Ideas), Social Influences, Environmental Influences, Work Environment, Knowledge Economy, Organizational Communication, Collegiality, Educational Environment, Educational Change, Competition
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland; United Kingdom
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