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The Casualisation Of Teaching And The Subject At Risk, Alisa Percy, Rosemary Beaumont
The Casualisation Of Teaching And The Subject At Risk, Alisa Percy, Rosemary Beaumont
Alisa Percy, PhD
The casualisation of teaching in Australian higher education has come to be problematised as a risk to the quality of teaching and learning. However, the potential and location of risk, and therefore what constitutes an appropriate institutional intervention, requires interrogation as universities comply with the various regulations that, on the one hand, legitimise further casualisation in the name of flexibility, and on the other, insist on institutional responsibilities in the performance of quality. Taking a critical approach to risk consciousness, this paper examines the way casualisation is produced through workplace reform and problematised as a danger to the student learning …