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Zusatztext This necessarily brief overview of the book cannot adequately convey the significance of McArthur's refreshing and well-written work. Her argument for placing social justice at the very core of higher education is both forceful and convincing and relevant for those teaching in religious studies or theology departments. For faculty struggling with questions regarding the future of higher education and who are looking for something beyond a business-model approach! McArthur's book offers a worthy conversation partner. Informationen zum Autor Jan McArthur is Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University, UK. She has previously taught at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Monash University, Australia. Zusammenfassung Rethinking Knowledge within Higher Education argues for a higher education that is neither a romantic idyll of learning for its own sake nor an instrumental institution designed to train a willing workforce for the prevailing economic system. Instead! using analysis informed by critical theorist Theodor Adorno! this book argues that higher education should have social and economic roles at its heart! and that these should encompass the needs of all society. The key to achieving this purpose without privilege lies in the ways in which knowledge is understood and engaged with in higher education. Higher education has a special role in society as a place in which complex! contested and dynamic knowledge is engaged with! challenged and created. The realization of this purpose challenges traditional dichotomies between economic and social purposes! liberal and vocational education! and theory and practice. Jan McArthur shows that by interpreting and adapting some of Adorno's most complex ideas! the nature of knowledge and the pursuit of social justice within higher education is feasible and aspirational. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Adorno and Higher Education1. Knowledge and Social Justice in Higher Education2. Approaches to Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy3. The Importance of Knowledge Being Not Easily Known 4. Beyond Standardized Engagement with Knowledge5. The Social Implications of Engaging with Knowledge in Higher Education6. Challenging the Theory-Practice Dichotomy7. Towards a Higher Education Transcending Both the Elite and the MainstreamReferencesIndex ...
