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March 29, 2017
Rethinking Knowledge within Higher Education: Adorno and Social Justice
- Author
- McArthur, Jan
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 9781472576286
- Table of Contents
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Introduction: Adorno and Higher Education
ch. 1 Knowledge and Social Justice in Higher Education
ch. 2 Approaches to Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy
ch. 3 The Importance of Knowledge Being Not Easily Known
ch. 4 Beyond Standardized Engagement with Knowledge
ch. 5 The Social Implications of Engaging with Knowledge in Higher Education
ch. 6 Challenging the Theory–Practice Dichotomy
ch. 7 Towards a Higher Education Transcending Both the Elite and the Mainstream
References
Index
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Abstract: Rethinking Knowledge within Higher Education argues for a higher education that is neither a romantic idyll of learning for its own sake nor an instrumental institution designed to train a willing workforce for the prevailing economic system. Instead, using analysis informed by critical theorist Theodor Adorno, this book argues that higher education should have social and economic roles at its heart, and that these should encompass the needs of all society. The key to achieving this purpose without privilege lies in the ways in which knowledge is understood and engaged with in higher education. Higher education has a special role in society as a place in which complex, contested and dynamic knowledge is engaged with, challenged and created. The realization of this purpose challenges traditional dichotomies between economic and social purposes, liberal and vocational education, and theory and practice. Jan McArthur shows that by interpreting and adapting some of Adorno's most complex ideas, the nature of knowledge and the pursuit of social justice within higher education is feasible and aspirational. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: Rethinking Knowledge within Higher Education argues for a higher education that is neither a romantic idyll of learning for its own sake nor an instrumental institution designed to train a willing workforce for the prevailing economic system. Instead, using analysis informed by critical theorist Theodor Adorno, this book argues that higher education should have social and economic roles at its heart, and that these should encompass the needs of all society. The key to achieving this purpose without privilege lies in the ways in which knowledge is understood and engaged with in higher education. Higher education has a special role in society as a place in which complex, contested and dynamic knowledge is engaged with, challenged and created. The realization of this purpose challenges traditional dichotomies between economic and social purposes, liberal and vocational education, and theory and practice. Jan McArthur shows that by interpreting and adapting some of Adorno's most complex ideas, the nature of knowledge and the pursuit of social justice within higher education is feasible and aspirational. (From the Publisher)