Dysacademia in the Ivory Towers: Performativity, Discipline, Control & Chaotically Moving Towards the Shadows of the 3Rd Educational Spaces

This theoretical inquiry is based upon an archaeological and genealogical deconstruction of the character, utility and state of being of the modern university in the United States. In introducing Dysacademia as an apt metaphor for today's dysfunctional academy, the current discursive analysis describes the various affects and effects that neoliberalism, performativity, discipline, and control have had upon the inorganic institutions of higher learning, and upon its primary subject concerns, the organic constituents known as the professoriate and the student body. As a follow up to this Ivory Tower deconstruction, a reconstructive enunciation is shaped using a conglomeration of postmodern, open systems,chaos, and poststructural theories to highlight the recursive potential that philosophy, cultural studies, and popular culture contain for opening undetermined and turbulent spaces that hold the promise and potential to expand the University's undertakings regarding learning, culture, social engagement, critical epistemology, and authentic and reflexive ontology.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Year dc:date.available

2004

Author dc:creator

• Geisler, Paul René

Contributors dc:contributor

• William M. Reynolds
• Marla Morris
• Charles J. Hardy

• ETD
• Higher education
• Neoliberalism
• Deconstruction
• Postmodernism
• Poststructuralism
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/580

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1580