Knowledge economy, development and the future of higher education / / 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 Weste...
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| Superior document: | Educational Futures ; 10 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Educational Futures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Knowledge Societies and Knowledge Economies
- Education and Ideologies of the Knowledge Economy
- Globalization and the Crisis in the Concept of the Modern University
- Poststructuralism, Marxism and the University
- Lyotard, Marxism and Higher Education: The Problem of Knowledge Capitalism
- The University and the New Humanities
- Universities, Regional Policy and the Knowledge Economy
- ‘Development Education’ in the Global Knowledge Economy
- Higher Education, Development, and the Learning Economy
- The Rise of Global Science and the Emerging Political Economy of International Research Collaborations
- Higher Education, Globalisation and the Knowledge Economy: Reclaiming the Cultural Mission
- The University ‘After’ the Disciplines and ‘Before’ the New World Economy
- Neoliberalism, Performance and the Assessment of Research Quality
- Research Quality, Bibliometrics and the Republic of Science
- Degrees of Freedom: Open Source, Open Access and Free Science
- References
- Biographical Note.