Enchanting Pedagogy: Creating Labor Games in the Extractive University

IF 4.4 2区 社会学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
J. Germain
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Through ethnographic fieldwork as a Teaching Assistant (TA) at the University of California, Berkeley, I advance that pedagogical labor can be conceptualized as two labor games. In the didactic game, I utilize hierarchical lecturing to simplify complex concepts in the pursuit of student comprehension of material, while the experiential game centers nonhierarchical dialogue and students’ personal experiences to promote consciousness-raising. TAs’ ability to create and switch between games underpins my broader theorization of labor games as one of two types: institutional games – shared among workers in similar structural circumstances and persistent across worker entry and exit – and innovation games – created by individual workers with relative autonomy amidst an absence of worker co-presence. Just as institutional games provide a template for obscuring and securing the extraction of surplus value under monopoly capitalism, innovation games do the same for the increasingly flexible, autonomous capitalism of the twenty-first century.
迷人的教育学:在采掘大学中创造劳动游戏
作为加州大学伯克利分校的助教,我通过民族志田野调查,提出了教学劳动可以被概念化为两种劳动游戏。在教学游戏中,我利用分层授课来简化复杂的概念,以追求学生对材料的理解,而体验游戏则以非分层对话和学生的个人经历为中心,以促进意识的提高。TA创造游戏和在游戏之间切换的能力支撑了我将劳动游戏作为两种类型之一的更广泛理论:制度游戏——在类似结构环境中的工人之间共享,并在工人进入和退出过程中持续存在——以及创新游戏——由在没有工人在场的情况下具有相对自主性的个体工人创造。正如制度游戏为掩盖和确保垄断资本主义下剩余价值的提取提供了模板一样,创新游戏也为21世纪日益灵活、自主的资本主义提供了模板。
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期刊介绍: For over 30 years, Work and Occupations has published rigorous social science research on the human dynamics of the workplace, employment, and society from an international, interdisciplinary perspective. Work and Occupations provides you with a broad perspective on the workplace, examining international approaches to work-related issues as well as insights from scholars in a variety of fields, including: anthropology, demography, education, government administration, history, industrial relations, labour economics, management, psychology, and sociology. In addition to regular features including research notes, review essays, and book reviews.
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