Acts of knowing : critical pedagogy in, against and beyond the University / / Edited by Stephen Cowden and Gurnam Singh ; With Sarah Amsler, Joyce Canaan and Sara Motta

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828767703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-4411-5975-4; 1-4725-5274-1; 1-4411-9455-X; 1-4411-6672-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (379 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.11/5
• Soggetti: Critical pedagogy; Education, Higher - Philosophy
• 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: Introduction - Critical Pedagogy and the Crisis in the Contemporary University; Part 1 - Perspectives on the Crisis in Education; 1: On the New Poverty of Student Life; 2: Sat-Nav Education - A Means to an End or an End to Meaning; 3: Critical Pedagogy, Public Sociology and Student Activism; 4: The Practical Politics of 'Criticality' in Higher Education; 5: Opening Spaces of Possibility in the University- Critical Pedagogy in the Teaching of Social Justice; Part 2 : Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education ; 6: Critical Pedagogy and the Uses of Freire and Bourdieu; 7: The Neoliberal University, Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education; 8: Indigenous Pedagogy; 9: Popular Education and Higher Education; 10: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory and Critical Hope; 11: Autonomist Marxism, Social Movements and Popular Education; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This provocative book's starting point is a deep and profound concern about the commodification of knowledge within the contemporary university. Acts of Knowing aims to provide readers with a means of understanding the issues from the perspective of Critical Pedagogy; an educational philosophy which believes that 'knowing' must be freed ; from the constraints of the financial and managerialist logics which dominate the contemporary university. Critical Pedagogy is important for three key reasons: it conceptualises pedagogy as a process of engagement between the teacher and taught; secondly that that engagement is based on an underlying humanistic view about human worth and value; and thirdly that the 'knowing' which can come out of this engagement needs to be understood essentially as exchange between people, rather than a financial exchange. Cowden and Singh argue that the conception of education as simply a means for securing economic returns for the individual and for the society's positioning in a global marketplace, represents a fundamentally impoverished conception of education, which impoverishes not just individuals, but society as a whole