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Education Under the Heel of Caesar: Reading UK Higher Education Reform through S hakespeare's A ntony and C leopatra
Author(s) -
Ward Sophie
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2012.00881.x
Subject(s) - cleopatra , reading (process) , sociology , media studies , classics , literature , art , law , political science
UK higher education reform ( BIS , [, 2011]) has been presented as a common‐sense movement towards efficiency. This article will argue that, in reality, the marketisation of higher education is a movement towards negative freedom, defined after B erlin ([Berlin, I., 2007]) as unrestricted choice. Using S hakespeare's A ntony and C leopatra as a means to explore the relationship between rationality and sensibility, it considers how negative freedom may undermine human connectivity and debase our relationships. In so doing, this article challenges the idea that importing the market system into education will enhance the ‘student experience’.