Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood Palgrave Critical University Studies Series
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Cocks Neil
This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the established body of educational theory. The unconventional methodology and focus promote irreducible difference and complexity, and in this stage a resistance to reductive discourses of managerialism. Questioning the materialism to which all sides of the contemporary pedagogical debate increasingly appeal, the book sets out a challenge to investments in ?excellence?, ?transparency? and objecthood. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, and literary theory.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Transparency and Objecthood.- Chapter 2. ‘[…] not much like a grove […]’: Openness, Object, and Agora in ‘The Lecherous Professor Revisited’ by Diane Purkiss.- Chapter 3. Therapy and its Discontents: Bullying, Freedom and Self-Evidence in 'The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education' by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes.- Chapter 4. New-Managerial Ontology: Materiality, Vision and Disclosure in 'Non-Representational Theory' by Nigel Thrift.
Neil Cocks is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading, UK. His research interests include nineteenth century literature, children's literature, psychoanalysis, and visual culture.
Offers a new approach to higher education discourse by analysing through a lens of literary criticism Interrogates current assumptions on the state of higher education Suggests how contemporary higher education can avoid the snares of managerialism
Date de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 95 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 03-2017
Ouvrage de 95 p.
14.8x21 cm
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