{"id":916,"date":"2008-09-24T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=916"},"modified":"2011-11-05T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T02:59:41","slug":"problematization-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/24\/problematization-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Problematization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problematization<\/span><\/p>\n

Changing face of higher education in the UK: Problematize the different way it has been problematized by key social actors.<\/p>\n

In this general context, an apparent puzzle has emerged concerning the lack of meaningful resistance by academics to the new regime of audit practices … Why are higher education audit reforms frequently not abandoned or activetly resisted by academics?\u00a0 … Why are these reforms often allowed to intensify further, becoming even more deeply\u00a0institutionalized and sedimented. 170<\/p>\n

An object of study is constructed<\/em>.\u00a0 This means that a range of disparate empirical phenomena have to constituted as a problem, and the problem has to be located at an appropriate level of abstraction and complexity.\u00a0 Thus our approach shares a family resemblance with Foucault’s practice of problematization, which in his view synthesized the archaeological and genealogical methods of analysis.<\/p>\n

… problematization constitutes the first of three moments in the overall logic of critical explanation.\u00a0 The second moment entails the furnishing of a retroductive explanation<\/strong> <\/span>that addresses key features which emerge out of our initial problematization.<\/p>\n

1.<\/span> Identifying relevant social (What), political (Why) \u00a0and fantasmatic (How)\u00a0logics<\/span>.\u00a0 We must thus start by characterizing<\/strong> the practices under investigation … this involves the task of retroductively identifying the assemblage of social logics<\/span> <\/em>that are currently being installed\u00a0in UK universitites.\u00a0 There are 4 such social logics:<\/p>\n

4 social logics informing the practices of the new regime:1. competition, 2. atomisation, 3. hierarchy, 4. instrumentalization.\u00a0 Which when articulated together enable us to characterize the emergent regime of audit practices (171).<\/p>\n

2. The important point to keep in mind here is how, for us, the identification and operation of social logics requires some reference to \u2014 or passage through \u2014 the self-interpretation of subjects.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Having established what the logics structuring the various audit practices in higher education are, we can also ask why and how they came about and continue to be sustained.\u00a0 This turns our attention to the operation of political and fantasmatic logics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Problematization Changing face of higher education in the UK: Problematize the different way it has been problematized by key social actors. In this general context, an apparent puzzle has emerged concerning the lack of meaningful resistance by academics to the new regime of audit practices … Why are higher education audit reforms frequently not abandoned … Continue reading “Problematization”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methodology","category-retroduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8574,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/8574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}