Jane Austen and the Belly of the Beast
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Date: 2014-04-09

This is a video overview of a conference paper we are writing for the 2014 Goldsmiths College, University of London, Learning and Teaching Conference. For more information about the conference please see http://www.gold.ac.uk/gleu/conference2014/.

The subtitle is Commodification, Technology and the Open Agenda in Higher Education.

Here is the first paragraph of the paper to give you an idea of the content:

"This is a reflective and rhetorical analysis of the changing nature of higher education, mediated by commercial interests, technology, and the open agenda. As Till (2013) argues, in the context of art education, there is an urgent need to look outwards beyond narrow disciplinary and institutional concerns, to critically reconsider what the purpose of higher education might be. The title of the paper conveys the tensions between the received concepts and cultural forms of the art college / university and the powerful forces changing our society - the tensions between manners and economics that underlie much of Austen's work. Being in the 'Belly of the Beast' also expresses the dilemmas described by Hall (2012) facing some academics."