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Papers by Lawrence F Hanley
The Radical Teacher, 2011
... “Digital Objects in New Learning Environments: The Case of WebCT.” Digital Material: Tracing ... more ... “Digital Objects in New Learning Environments: The Case of WebCT.” Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday life and Technology. Ed. Marianne van den Booment, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann. Amster-dam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. Levy, Pierre. ...
ranging from the production of knowl edge created by faculty to the faculty's curriculum and ... more ranging from the production of knowl edge created by faculty to the faculty's curriculum and instruction" (Rhoades and Slaughter, "Academic Capitalism" 37). As the boundaries between univer sity and market become increasingly permeable, universities act more and more like profit-seeking organizations in a knowledge market. Thus, to bend Rhoades and Slaughter a bit further, academic capitalism, while driven by the demands to generate revenue, also describes the increasing authority of market-like practices, roles, and ideolo gies within the academy. This is of course a particular incarnation of the more general dynamic of neo-liberal ization. Like other instances, academic capi talism depends first on a material and ideological restructuring of the "pub lie" and the "private." Indeed, over the past decade, federal and state politi cians have essentially rewritten the his toric compact forged between the pub lic, higher education, and the state. ...
The politics of technology resides in how technology is used and who controls the uses of technol... more The politics of technology resides in how technology is used and who controls the uses of technology. Will educational technology be used by academic management to degrade and control academic labor? Or, will educational technology be used by teachers to assert and extend control of their own labor and workplaces? That's a political choice.
Workplace a Journal For Academic Labor, Feb 12, 2013
It's late Thursday night in a dorm room at Southwest State U., and Lisa P. is checking her email.... more It's late Thursday night in a dorm room at Southwest State U., and Lisa P. is checking her email. There's one from Mom. Here's one from UwinLotto.com. And, uh oh, here's one from Lisa's "Intro to Sociology" class. Once opened, the email tells Lisa that she's failed her most recent quiz, and that she needs to review course Module 21 and then answer the discussion questions posted under the "Deviance" thread on the course bulletin board. Also, the email message concludes cheerily: "Please do not reply to this message because this message has been automatically created and composed by your course learningware." At first, Lisa is a little bummed about flunking her self-paced, auto-graded quiz. Quickly, however, she recalls that individualized instruction in her Soc class is available 24-7. Lisa gracefully logs onto her course site to begin the unit on "Deviance" and settles back in her chair to view the streaming video course lecture.
The Radical Teacher, 2002
... Through streaming video , texts, and transcripts, the resource kit shows how students use com... more ... Through streaming video , texts, and transcripts, the resource kit shows how students use computers to make sense of the social meaningof maps. ... and learning as the objects of scholarly inquiry, Linkon becomes the "expert learner," and fac ulty become the "novices in the ...
Academe, 2005
I hadn't planned this issue around any particular theme or focus, but reading and rereading ... more I hadn't planned this issue around any particular theme or focus, but reading and rereading these very good articles, I could sense some kind of shared object or interest. In her essay on assessment, for example, Sherry Lee Linkon efficiently summarizes our collective ...
Academe, 2003
The publication in this issue of Academe of the report of the AAUP's Special Committee on Ac... more The publication in this issue of Academe of the report of the AAUP's Special Committee on Academic Freedom and National Security in a Time of Crisis follows through on the magazine's efforts to track the often confusing, rarely simple, and sometimes controversial situation of ...
Academe, 2002
As the title on the cover indicates, this issue is chock-full of provocations. But the controvers... more As the title on the cover indicates, this issue is chock-full of provocations. But the controversies explored by our contributors are not of the cheap, easy, or "hot button" variety. Instead, they focus on linchpins of our profession, places where the values and ideals of the academic ...
Academe, 2004
The most recent conflict in the Middle East, for example, has catapulted Iraqi universities out o... more The most recent conflict in the Middle East, for example, has catapulted Iraqi universities out of intellectual ossification into a world defined by everyday violence, instability, and risk. In their respective articles, Keith Watenpaugh and Mary Gray underscore the deeply precarious ...
Academe, 2003
Science has always been plagued by a deep irony: at the same time that it unleashes tremendous po... more Science has always been plagued by a deep irony: at the same time that it unleashes tremendous powers of human creativity, it also harbors the potential for awesome destruction. September 11, 2001, transformed this irony into a critical challenge for universities and academic ...
Academe, 2003
Within recent weeks, the president of a California community college has issued a memo warning pr... more Within recent weeks, the president of a California community college has issued a memo warning professors not to discuss the current war in their classrooms. The alumni association of a prestigious, private New England university has rescinded an award to a graduating ...
Academe, 2003
Accommodating new kinds of faculty and students is only half the game; the real goal for universi... more Accommodating new kinds of faculty and students is only half the game; the real goal for universities and colleges should be to harness fully the tremendous talents and resources of their new constituents. Realizing this ambition, as many of our contributors explain, depends on ...
Academe, 2004
What is academic labor? Professors, after all, engage in a lot of different kinds of work: gradin... more What is academic labor? Professors, after all, engage in a lot of different kinds of work: grading papers, participating in curriculum committees, writing book and literature reviews, leading online discussions, conducting research. While all these tasks involve work, some of them ...
Academe, 2005
In his article, Kevin Mattson explores the implications of recent initiatives to remake teaching ... more In his article, Kevin Mattson explores the implications of recent initiatives to remake teaching into "active learning." He traces the roots of these efforts to progressive pedagogies inspired by educational philosopher John Dewey. As Mattson explains, however, in a ...
California's three public higher education systems (University of California, California State Un... more California's three public higher education systems (University of California, California State University, the California Community College System) enroll nearly 3 million undergraduate students and employ almost 100 thousand faculty. In 2012, the California State Legislature directed the three systems to create an online library of open educational resources to encourage the use of free or affordable textbooks and other materials throughout California's public higher education system. Composed of faculty representatives from each of the three systems, the California Open Educational Resources Council (CAOERC) was formed and charged in January, 2014, with collecting, peer-reviewing, helping to curate, publicizing, and cultivating the adoption of these open educational resources. As we end the first phase of this massive effort, our paper will: 1) outline what we've learned about scale and collaboration among California's three distinct higher education systems; 2) present the results of CAOERC's ongoing research (via surveys and focus groups) about open textbook use and adoption; 3) briefly discuss issues of OER sustainability in the context of cooperation among state, university, and non-profit sectors.
This paper examines the institutionalization of working-class cultural studies in the contemporar... more This paper examines the institutionalization of working-class cultural studies in the contemporary university with particular attention to the "multicultural" paradigm and the challenges it poses to the political work of education.
The Radical Teacher, 2011
... “Digital Objects in New Learning Environments: The Case of WebCT.” Digital Material: Tracing ... more ... “Digital Objects in New Learning Environments: The Case of WebCT.” Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday life and Technology. Ed. Marianne van den Booment, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann. Amster-dam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. Levy, Pierre. ...
ranging from the production of knowl edge created by faculty to the faculty's curriculum and ... more ranging from the production of knowl edge created by faculty to the faculty's curriculum and instruction" (Rhoades and Slaughter, "Academic Capitalism" 37). As the boundaries between univer sity and market become increasingly permeable, universities act more and more like profit-seeking organizations in a knowledge market. Thus, to bend Rhoades and Slaughter a bit further, academic capitalism, while driven by the demands to generate revenue, also describes the increasing authority of market-like practices, roles, and ideolo gies within the academy. This is of course a particular incarnation of the more general dynamic of neo-liberal ization. Like other instances, academic capi talism depends first on a material and ideological restructuring of the "pub lie" and the "private." Indeed, over the past decade, federal and state politi cians have essentially rewritten the his toric compact forged between the pub lic, higher education, and the state. ...
The politics of technology resides in how technology is used and who controls the uses of technol... more The politics of technology resides in how technology is used and who controls the uses of technology. Will educational technology be used by academic management to degrade and control academic labor? Or, will educational technology be used by teachers to assert and extend control of their own labor and workplaces? That's a political choice.
Workplace a Journal For Academic Labor, Feb 12, 2013
It's late Thursday night in a dorm room at Southwest State U., and Lisa P. is checking her email.... more It's late Thursday night in a dorm room at Southwest State U., and Lisa P. is checking her email. There's one from Mom. Here's one from UwinLotto.com. And, uh oh, here's one from Lisa's "Intro to Sociology" class. Once opened, the email tells Lisa that she's failed her most recent quiz, and that she needs to review course Module 21 and then answer the discussion questions posted under the "Deviance" thread on the course bulletin board. Also, the email message concludes cheerily: "Please do not reply to this message because this message has been automatically created and composed by your course learningware." At first, Lisa is a little bummed about flunking her self-paced, auto-graded quiz. Quickly, however, she recalls that individualized instruction in her Soc class is available 24-7. Lisa gracefully logs onto her course site to begin the unit on "Deviance" and settles back in her chair to view the streaming video course lecture.
The Radical Teacher, 2002
... Through streaming video , texts, and transcripts, the resource kit shows how students use com... more ... Through streaming video , texts, and transcripts, the resource kit shows how students use computers to make sense of the social meaningof maps. ... and learning as the objects of scholarly inquiry, Linkon becomes the "expert learner," and fac ulty become the "novices in the ...
Academe, 2005
I hadn't planned this issue around any particular theme or focus, but reading and rereading ... more I hadn't planned this issue around any particular theme or focus, but reading and rereading these very good articles, I could sense some kind of shared object or interest. In her essay on assessment, for example, Sherry Lee Linkon efficiently summarizes our collective ...
Academe, 2003
The publication in this issue of Academe of the report of the AAUP's Special Committee on Ac... more The publication in this issue of Academe of the report of the AAUP's Special Committee on Academic Freedom and National Security in a Time of Crisis follows through on the magazine's efforts to track the often confusing, rarely simple, and sometimes controversial situation of ...
Academe, 2002
As the title on the cover indicates, this issue is chock-full of provocations. But the controvers... more As the title on the cover indicates, this issue is chock-full of provocations. But the controversies explored by our contributors are not of the cheap, easy, or "hot button" variety. Instead, they focus on linchpins of our profession, places where the values and ideals of the academic ...
Academe, 2004
The most recent conflict in the Middle East, for example, has catapulted Iraqi universities out o... more The most recent conflict in the Middle East, for example, has catapulted Iraqi universities out of intellectual ossification into a world defined by everyday violence, instability, and risk. In their respective articles, Keith Watenpaugh and Mary Gray underscore the deeply precarious ...
Academe, 2003
Science has always been plagued by a deep irony: at the same time that it unleashes tremendous po... more Science has always been plagued by a deep irony: at the same time that it unleashes tremendous powers of human creativity, it also harbors the potential for awesome destruction. September 11, 2001, transformed this irony into a critical challenge for universities and academic ...
Academe, 2003
Within recent weeks, the president of a California community college has issued a memo warning pr... more Within recent weeks, the president of a California community college has issued a memo warning professors not to discuss the current war in their classrooms. The alumni association of a prestigious, private New England university has rescinded an award to a graduating ...
Academe, 2003
Accommodating new kinds of faculty and students is only half the game; the real goal for universi... more Accommodating new kinds of faculty and students is only half the game; the real goal for universities and colleges should be to harness fully the tremendous talents and resources of their new constituents. Realizing this ambition, as many of our contributors explain, depends on ...
Academe, 2004
What is academic labor? Professors, after all, engage in a lot of different kinds of work: gradin... more What is academic labor? Professors, after all, engage in a lot of different kinds of work: grading papers, participating in curriculum committees, writing book and literature reviews, leading online discussions, conducting research. While all these tasks involve work, some of them ...
Academe, 2005
In his article, Kevin Mattson explores the implications of recent initiatives to remake teaching ... more In his article, Kevin Mattson explores the implications of recent initiatives to remake teaching into "active learning." He traces the roots of these efforts to progressive pedagogies inspired by educational philosopher John Dewey. As Mattson explains, however, in a ...
California's three public higher education systems (University of California, California State Un... more California's three public higher education systems (University of California, California State University, the California Community College System) enroll nearly 3 million undergraduate students and employ almost 100 thousand faculty. In 2012, the California State Legislature directed the three systems to create an online library of open educational resources to encourage the use of free or affordable textbooks and other materials throughout California's public higher education system. Composed of faculty representatives from each of the three systems, the California Open Educational Resources Council (CAOERC) was formed and charged in January, 2014, with collecting, peer-reviewing, helping to curate, publicizing, and cultivating the adoption of these open educational resources. As we end the first phase of this massive effort, our paper will: 1) outline what we've learned about scale and collaboration among California's three distinct higher education systems; 2) present the results of CAOERC's ongoing research (via surveys and focus groups) about open textbook use and adoption; 3) briefly discuss issues of OER sustainability in the context of cooperation among state, university, and non-profit sectors.
This paper examines the institutionalization of working-class cultural studies in the contemporar... more This paper examines the institutionalization of working-class cultural studies in the contemporary university with particular attention to the "multicultural" paradigm and the challenges it poses to the political work of education.