Acts of knowing : critical pedagogy in, against and beyond the University / Edited by Stephen Cowden and Gurnam Singh ; With Sarah Amsler, Joyce Canaan and Sara Motta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cowden, Stephen, editor of compilation.

Singh, Gurnam, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This provocative book's starting point is a deep and profound concern about the commodification of knowledge within the contemporary university. Acts of Knowing aims to provide readers with a means of understanding the issues from the perspective of Critical Pedagogy; an educational philosophy which believes that 'knowing' must be freed from the constraints of the financial and managerialist logics which dominate the contemporary university. Critical Pedagogy is important for three key reasons: it conceptualises pedagogy as a process of engagement between the teacher and taught; secondly that that engagement is based on an underlying humanistic view about human worth and value; and thirdly that the 'knowing' which can come out of this engagement needs to be understood essentially as exchange between people, rather than a financial exchange. Cowden and Singh argue that the conception of education as simply a means for securing economic returns for the individual and for the society's positioning in a global marketplace, represents a fundamentally impoverished conception of education, which impoverishes not just individuals, but society as a whole

Contents:

Introduction - Critical Pedagogy and the Crisis in the Contemporary University; Part 1 - Perspectives on the Crisis in Education; 1: On the New Poverty of Student Life; 2: Sat-Nav Education - A Means to an End or an End to Meaning; 3: Critical Pedagogy, Public Sociology and Student Activism; 4: The Practical Politics of 'Criticality' in Higher Education; 5: Opening Spaces of Possibility in the University- Critical Pedagogy in the Teaching of Social Justice; Part 2 : Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education ; 6: Critical Pedagogy and the Uses of Freire and Bourdieu; 7: The Neoliberal University, Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education; 8: Indigenous Pedagogy; 9: Popular Education and Higher Education; 10: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory and Critical Hope; 11: Autonomist Marxism, Social Movements and Popular Education; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441159755

1441159754

9781472552747

1472552741

9781441194558

144119455X

9781441166722

1441166726

OCLC:

833766584