Pedagogies of Disaster.

We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university, which also has immediate effects in...

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Main Authors:	Matthew Charles (Author), Andreas Vrahimis (Author), Katharina Stadler (Author), Jonas Staal (Author), Urok Shirhan (Author), Edith Doron (Author), John Van Houdt (Author), Julia Hölzl (Author), Oliver Feltham (Author), Christopher Fynsk (Author), Nico Jenkins (ed. and author) (Author), Adam Staley Groves (ed. and author) (Author), Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei (ed. and author) (Author), Justin Joque (Author), Tijana Stevanović (Author), Denisa Kera (Author), Sina Badiei (Author), Nick Skiadopoulos (Author), Judith Balso (Author), Jonida Gashi (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	Software eBook
Language:	Multiple languages Albanian English
Language Notes:	Albanian. English.
Published:	punctum Books 2013.
Subjects:	Theory and practice of education. Popular culture. Social Science > Popular Culture. catastrophe, disaster, education, pedagogy, University Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university, which also has immediate effects in academic peripheries such as the Balkans, the Middle East, or South-East Asia, is of great influence for the pedagogical practice of "less profitable" academic areas such as the Humanities: philosophy, languages, sociology, anthropology, history. Because of the absence of a historically grounded establishment of the Humanities, academic peripheries, usually accompanied by a weak civil society infrastructure, seem to offer the most fertile ground for rethinking the Humanities, their pedagogical practice, and their politics, as well as the greatest threats, such as the ongoing capitalization of research, and profitability as the norm of educational achievement. The sprawling presence of for-profit universities and in academic peripheries such as Albania and Kosovo is indicative of this problematic, as are consistent underfunding of universities and the relentless budget cuts in American and English, and to a lesser extent European, universities. Motivations for this ongoing attack on the university are often driven by a political system or a politics with an aggressive stance to critical thought
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 electronic resource (552 pages))
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780615898711 0615898718