The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace - Softcover

Downing, David B.

 
9780803222311: The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803222319 ISBN 13: 9780803222311
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The Knowledge Contract intervenes in the ongoing debates about the changing conditions of higher education in America, with a special focus on English studies and the humanities. This highly original study integrates three crucial concerns: the economic restructuring of higher education, the transformation of disciplinary models of teaching and research, and the rise of the academic labor movement.
 
Whereas most contemporary critiques of higher education have focused on the impact of global economic forces, The Knowledge Contract adds a new dimension to the discussion by addressing the tensions between disciplinary and nondisciplinary forms of academic work. David B. Downing draws on several traditions of scholarship: histories of the university, sociological studies of education, critiques of disciplinary and interdisciplinary forms of work, histories of academic capitalism and the labor movement, and field-specific analyses of the history of English studies. Building on his analysis, Downing develops alternative possibilities to the dominance of disciplinary forms of labor and offers scenarios for creating more equitable working and learning conditions for faculty and students.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David B. Downing is a professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Changing Classroom Practices: Resources for Literary and Cultural Studies and the coeditor of Beyond English, Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy, among other books. He edits the journal Works and Days.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803222319
ISBN 13 
9780803222311
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
326
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