How to Get a Life: Humanities Education in the Age of Neoliberal Exhaustion

Autor/in	Alexandra Perisic
Titel	How to Get a Life: Humanities Education in the Age of Neoliberal Exhaustion
Quelle	In: Critical Education, 12 (2021) 3, S. 1-14 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Neoliberalism; Humanities; Human Capital; Anxiety; Loan Repayment; Student Financial Aid; Educational Change; Burnout; Work Ethic; Higher Education; Stress Variables; Teacher Attitudes; College Faculty; Academic Achievement; Student Attitudes; College Students; Educational Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Humankapital; Angst; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Bildungsreform; Burn out (Psychology); Burnout-syndrom; Burnout-Syndrom; Arbeitsethos; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrerverhalten; Fakultät; Schulleistung; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent; Bildungserfahrung
Abstract	Increasingly, over the past few years, my students have claimed that they are overworked and that they don't have a life. They are worried about their grades, their ability to find a job after graduation and repay their student loans. In this article, I grapple with this growing anxiety and stress that I have witnessed among my students. I explore the correlation between the neoliberalization of education, the ideology of human capital and student states of panic and anxiety. I argue that the neoliberal education reform has intensified overwork and exhaustion, as students have internalized the logic that they are human capital, constantly needing to compete and increase their value on the market. I further call upon the humanities to question the neoliberal work ethic and fight for a higher education whose ultimate objective is not the creation of human capital. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute for Critical Education Studies. 2125 Main Mall, EDCP, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada. Tel: 604-822-2830; Web site: https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/
Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2025/3/08