The Growth of Enterprise Pedagogy

Dr Mark Brown’s article “The growth of enterprise pedagogy” is critical from the outset of the way that ICT is implemented in modern pedagogical systems, he sees ICT, as it is now, as being infected by neo-liberalist ideologies that promote profiteering and fear mongering. Brown suggests that in order to counter this trend within ICT we must ask five important considerations. 

Who is telling the ICT story and why? 

How are they telling the ICT story? 

What is it they are telling/promoting about ICT? 

What is missing? Whose voice is not being heard? Whose story is not being told?

How are different people understanding and responding to the ICT message?

These questions are aimed at forcing us to reexamine the default attitude towards ICT that has been popularised in recent years. Brown notes in his conclusion that teaching is an inherently political activity, thus these questions aid us in recognising the role that popular and political discourse play in constructing the basis and aims of our educational system.