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Building knowledge cultures : education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism / Michael A. Peters with A.C. (Tina) Besley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-
- Series:
- Critical education policy and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Economic aspects.
- Education.
- Knowledge management--Economic aspects.
- Knowledge management.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Postmodernism and education.
- Physical Description:
- x, 225 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
- Summary:
- Building Knowledge Cultures develops the notion of knowledge cultures as a basis for understanding the possibilities of education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism. Knowledge cultures refer to the cultural preconditions in the new production of knowledge and their basis in shared practices, embodying preferred ways of doing things often developed over many generations. These practices point to the way cultures have varying repertoires of representational and nonrepresentational forms of knowing. This book discusses knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the new economy as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. It focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, fast knowledge, the role of the so-called new pedagogy, and social learning under these conditions.
- Contents:
- Cultural knowledge economy: education, the new economy, and the communicative turn
- The politics of postmodernity and the promise of education
- Education policy in the age of knowledge capitalism
- National education policy constructions of the knowledge economy
- Universities, globalization, and the new political economy of knowledge
- The theater of fast knowledge: performative epistemologies
- The new pedagogy and social learning
- Theorizing educational practices: the politico-ethical choices
- Knowledge networks, innovation, and development: education after modernization
- Educational policy futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 074251790X
- 0742517918
- OCLC:
- 62322201
- Publisher Number:
- 9780742517905
- 9780742517912
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