Experiments in Decolonizing the University : : towards an ecology of study / / Hans Schildermans.

• Superior document: Radical politics and education
• VerfasserIn: Schildermans, Hans,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Radical politics and education.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages).

"The book addresses the need to reconsider the relation between university and society, a debate which has been discussed for centuries from the Middle Ages to Kant, Humboldt and Newman. Hans Schildermans builds on the philosophy and theory of higher education, drawing on the work of John Dewey, Donna Haraway, William James, Bruno Latour, Martin Savransky, Isabelle Stengers and Alfred North Whitehead. The theoretical discussion is undertaken in relation to case studies of study practices of the Palestinian experimental university 'Campus in Camps'. The book avoids the two positions that are traditionally defended: the idea of the autonomous university on the one hand, and the capitalized university on the other hand. Schildermans emphases the importance of study practices as a site of resistance against current neoliberal and capitalist reforms of the university. The book will appeal to activists, critical academics and those interested in the fate of higher education today"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction : inhabiting the ruins of excellence -- Part 1. Inside the studiers' workshop : the invention of the university and the challenge of the sciences. 2. The university in the middle ages : on the invention of a new use of reason ; 3. How to learn something new? The place of scientific practices at the university -- Part 2. Campus in camps : an experimental university in a Palestinian refugee camp. 4. Beyond victimization and normalization : on questioning situations and studiers' obligations ; 5. Beyond response-able : inquiring into the requirements of a practice of study -- Part 3. A home of adventures : Whitehead's account of the university and its relation to the fugure. 6. The studiers' constraint : Whiteheadian adventures and matters of study ; 7. Making other futures possible : toward a pedagogy of study practices.