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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816190303321

Autore

Loughead Tanya

Titolo

Critical university : moving higher education forward / / Tanya Loughead ; foreword by Peter McLaren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-2631-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Disciplina

378

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Raising an eyebrow at the university -- Radical teaching -- Freedom-work -- Critically thinking about what "critical thinking" is -- Method, bell hooks, and Paulo Freire -- Conclusion : critical university.

Sommario/riassunto

What way forward for the contemporary university? Critical University traverses fields in critical theory (Marcuse and Althusser), psychoanalysis (Kristeva and Freud), phenomenology (Husserl), and the philosophy of education (Freire and Hooks) to focus and provoke further discussion of the university in crisis.