TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bruce Macfarlane
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
IS  - 2
VL  - 5
SN  - 2578-5761
TI  - 1. The Impact of Covid-19 and Pandemic Policies on the Freedom to Teach
DO  - 10.3726/PTIHE.022023.0223
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1456769
N2  - The threat to the freedom to teach at university is conventionally understood in sensationalist terms as the censure of radical university teachers by powerful external bodies. An under-explored alternative interpretation relates to the extent to which university teachers are free to develop and determine their own methods to teach the university curriculum on a day-to-day basis. Yet, this pedagogic self-governance, so long taken-for-granted despite the evolution of quality assurance systems, massification and the professionalization of the curriculum, has recently been subject to more interventionist teaching and learning policies inspired and justified by the Covid-19 pandemic. Under this pretext many universities have introduced policies that increasingly direct 
KW  - academic freedom, Covid-19, learning and teaching strategies, McDonaldization, learnification
ER  -