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However, this approach is promoted with little recognition that enhanced employability does not guarantee employment outcomes or the tensions inherent in pursuing this agenda. The increasing focus on employability seems to suggest that the primary role of contemporary higher education is to produce skilled (yet increasingly un/der paid and precarious) workers. Although graduate employment is undoubtedly an important outcome, we do not consider it our primary purpose or the yardstick by which the quality of education (and our teaching) should be measured. To do so would be to cede ground on what the role of higher education is and can be, potentially impacting negatively on both students and those who teach them. Drawing on anarchist pedagogies and prefigurative politics and our own experiences as educators and researchers in vocationally-oriented disciplines, we consider the possibilities for resistance within the academy to the dominant discourses of employability. We highlight the tensions inherent in the neoliberal pursuit of employability, characterising them as fissures through which possibilities for resistance and transformative praxes may take hold and indeed thrive.  \nKeywords: unpaid work, employability, anarchist pedagogies, graduate employment, prefigurative politics, higher education  \nIntroduction: Creating unpaid workers for capitalism?  \nIn recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on ‘employability’ as a metric by which the success of a  \nuniversity education and our teaching is, or should be, assessed (Jackson et al. , 2013) . Academics have been instructed to re-write and re-structure courses to improve the ‘employability’ of our graduates, in everything from scientific and vocational fields to arts and humanities.  \nvol. 59, no. 2, 2017 Resisting the ‘employability’doctrine Natalie Osborne & Deanna Grant-Smith 59  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nFurther, those tasked with curriculum re-structuring mayor may not be working in positions where this kind of labour is acknowledged or properly paid for;the increasing casualisation of higher education often precludes access to the professional development that informs and supports curriculum-level work, and sessional contracts may or may not have any allocation for this kind of work. Further, there is seemingly little acknowledgement that ‘employability’ does not necessarily equate to‘employment’(Brown et al., 2004), or that job seeking is largely a zero-sum game. In the context of high graduate and youth un/deremployment the unspoken reality is that there are not enough jobs, and for every graduate who  \nworkers; and the compression of time and restriction of resources alongside increasing performance expectations, surveillance, and bureaucracy (Fisher, 2009; Giroux, 2016; Hil, 2016; Mountz et al., 2015). So pervasive is this project that many academics now believe neoliberalism has consumed the horizons of education and of universities in Australia and abroad (Alvanousi, 2009; Brady, 2012; Heath & Burdon, 2013; Lorenz, 2012) . Proposals for fee deregulation, for instance, received widespread (albeit not universal) support from management across the sector, including from Universities Australia (Batterbury & Byrne, 2017).The relative lack of overt resistance from academics against the neoliberalisation of the sector (Hil  \nsucceeds in finding work, ~~ ~~ & Lyons, 2017), including many others have missed out In this paper we highlight the pedagogical to the reduction of higher (C&uCervo &hurchilWl,yn20,1260) 16St;Dudeennnyts’ practices we","cbCain9h06mDsrHM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain9h06mDsrHM","pdf",126516,11,"English","# Introduction: Creating unpaid workers for capitalism?\n## Employability as a university metric\n## Neoliberal tensions and unpaid/casualised labour\n## Resistance through anarchist pedagogies and prefiguration","[{\"question\":\"Why do the authors critique employability as the main metric for university success?\",\"answer\":\"Because employability does not guarantee employment outcomes and obscures the tensions and contradictions within the neoliberal higher-education agenda. The authors argue that it should not become the yardstick for teaching quality or the primary role of higher education.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect the employability focus to unpaid or underpaid work?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights that curriculum restructuring labour may be unacknowledged, improperly paid, or constrained by casualisation and sessional contracting. This produces conditions where academic work tied to employability can become invisible or uncompensated.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do anarchist pedagogies and prefigurative politics play in the proposed resistance?\",\"answer\":\"They inform the authors’ consideration of possibilities for resistance within the academy. The paper emphasizes “fissures” created by neoliberal tensions, through which transformative educational practices may take hold and thrive.\"}]","Resisting the ‘employability’ doctrine through anarchist pedagogies & prefiguration | PDF",1792079657,28]