Knowledge as value : : ill.umination through critical prisms / / edited by Ian Morley and Mira Crouch.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries, v. 50
• TeilnehmendeR: Crouch, Mira, 1932-; Morley, Ian.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book considers the place and value of knowledge in contemporary society. “Knowledge” is not a self-evident concept: both its denotations and connotations are historically situated. Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has been a matter of discovery through effort, and “knowledge for its own sake”...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Valuing Intellectual Freedom: A Critical Analysis of Policies in Australian Universities / John McDonald
• Counting the Currency of Knowledge: New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund / Grant Duncan
• Conceptions of Knowledge and the Modern University / Francine Rochford
• Knowledge as Practice: Implications for the Tertiary Sector / Stephen Healy
• The Anxiety of Making Academics Over: Resistance and Responsibility in the Academic Development Project / Tai Peseta and Catherine Manathunga
• The Internet, the Knowledge Product, and the Craft of History / Ian Morley
• “Most Intellectuals Will Only Half Listen”: The Needs and Futures of Hip-Hop Studies / Graham Chia-Hui Preston
• Knowledge Value through Management / S. Ram Vemuri
• Making the Structures Tumble / Mireta von Gerlach
• The Classics and Australian Culture Wars / Mark Rolfe
• The Mutation of Economics / Matthew Steen
• Pericles was a Plumber: Towards Resolving the Liberal and Vocational Dichotomy in Legal Education / Craig Collins
• Explaining the Complexities and Value of Nursing Practice and Knowledge / Heather McKenzie , Maureen Boughton , Lillian Hayes and Sue Forsyth
• Notes on Contributors.