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March 29, 2017
Acts of Knowing: Critical Pedagogy in, Against and Beyond the University
- Author
- Cowden, Stephen; and Singh, Gurnam
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 9781441105318
- Table of Contents
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Introduction - Critical Pedagogy and the Crisis in the Contemporary University
Part 1 - Perspectives on the Crisis in Education
ch. 1 On the New Poverty of Student Life
ch. 2 Sat-Nav Education - A Means to an End or an End to Meaning
ch. 3 Critical Pedagogy, Public Sociology and Student Activism
ch. 4 The Practical Politics of 'Criticality' in Higher Education
ch. 5 Opening Spaces of Possibility in the University- Critical Pedagogy in the Teaching of Social Justice
Part 2 : Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education
ch. 6 Critical Pedagogy and the Uses of Freire and Bourdieu
ch. 7 The Neoliberal University, Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education
ch. 8 Indigenous Pedagogy
ch. 9 Popular Education and Higher Education
ch. 10 Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory and Critical Hope
ch. 11 Autonomist Marxism, Social Movements and Popular Education
Index
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Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)