Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education

Prophetically, almost thirty years ago Jean-François Lyotard forecast the end of the modern research university based on Enlightenment principles. He envisaged the emergence of technical institutes in the service of the information-rich global multinationals. This book reflects on the post-war Western university and its discourses charting the crisis of the concept of the modern university. First, it examines the university within a global networked economy; second, it adopts poststructuralist perspectives in epistemology, politics and ethics to appraise the role of the contemporary university; third, it introduces the notion of 'development' in a critical fashion as a way of explaining its potentially new regional and international learning roles; fourth, it analyzes the rise of global science and the disciplines in the context of the global economy; and, finally, it raises Lyotard's 'logic of performativity' and the assessment of research quality within a neoliberal economy, linking it firmly to the question of freedom and the republic of science.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Peters, Michael A. Peters
• Publisher: Sense Publ
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9789087900700
• ISBN: 978-90-8790-070-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Educational Futures: Rethinkin; Educational Futures: Rethinkin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system