An Ode to Stuart Hall's "The Supply of Demand": The Case of Post-Secondary Education in Ontario Fifty Years Later

Autor/in	FitzGerald Murphy, Maggie
Titel	An Ode to Stuart Hall's "The Supply of Demand": The Case of Post-Secondary Education in Ontario Fifty Years Later
Quelle	In: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 14 (2016) 1, S.184-199 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-2743
Schlagwörter	Supply and Demand; Postsecondary Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Graduate Study; Educational Change; Neoliberalism; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bedarfsplanung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Bildungsreform; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Kanada
Abstract	Despite the fact that over fifty years have passed since its publication, Stuart Hall's article "The Supply of Demand" (1960), is remarkably relevant today. The central message that society must not be blinded by "prosperity" such that it no longer envisions and demands a better world is especially pertinent in light of the continual commodification of postsecondary education in Ontario. Exploring this more fully is the purpose of this paper. Following Hall's general argument in "The Supply of Demand," and using examples from a variety of universities in Ontario, Canada, this paper discusses how rhetoric of prosperity coexists with a discourse of impoverishment in the Ontario post-secondary education system. I argue that this paradoxical discourse is tied to neoliberal reforms and the commodification of education by capital. To support this claim, the "double speak" of university administrations, involving a discourse of human development, related to the qualitative use value of education, on the one hand, and a discourse of capitalist accumulation, related to "investment" in capital and exchange value, on the other hand, is discussed; this double speak helps to explain why and how there appears to be, at times, funding for some (prosperity), and yet financial cuts for others (impoverishment). Finally, based upon the analysis, and once again following Hall, it is suggested that in order to change meaningfully our post-secondary education system, we must be critical of "prosperity," strive to look beyond it, imagine what could exist, and demand the best of each other and ourselves. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: ieps@ieps.org.uk; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
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Update	2020/1/01