Knowledge economy, development and the future of higher education / / by Michael A. Peters.

• Superior document: Educational Futures ; 10
• VerfasserIn: Peters, Michael 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• ISBN: 1281104876; 9786611104870; 9087903499
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Michael A. Peters.

Prophetically, almost thirty years ago Jean-François Lyotard forecast the end of the modern research university based on Enlightenment principles. He envisaged the emergence of technical institutes in the service of the information-rich global multinationals. This book reflects on the post-war Western university and its discourses charting the crisis of the concept of the modern university. First, it examines the university within a global networked economy; second, it adopts poststructuralist perspectives in epistemology, politics and ethics to appraise the role of the contemporary university; third, it introduces the notion of 'development' in a critical fashion as a way of explaining its potentially new regional and international learning roles; fourth, it analyzes the rise of global science and the disciplines in the context of the global economy; and, finally, it raises Lyotard’s 'logic of performativity' and the assessment of research quality within a neoliberal economy, linking it firmly to the question of freedom and the republic of science.