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Title
Higher education discourse and deconstruction : challenging the case for transparency and objecthood / Neil Cocks.
ISBN
9783319529837 (electronic book)
3319529838 (electronic book)
9783319529820
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave MacMillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-52983-7 doi
Call Number
LB2322.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
378
Summary
This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the established body of educational theory. The unconventional methodology and focus promote irreducible difference and complexity, and in this stage a resistance to reductive discourses of managerialism. Questioning the materialism to which all sides of the contemporary pedagogical debate increasingly appeal, the book sets out a challenge to investments in 'excellence', 'transparency' and objecthood. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, and literary theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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text file PDF
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Series
Palgrave critical university studies.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319529820
Chapter 1. Introduction: Transparency and Objecthood
Chapter 2. ' ... not much like a grove ... ': Openness, Object, and Agora in 'The Lecherous Professor Revisited' by Diane Purkiss
Chapter 3. Therapy and its Discontents: Bullying, Freedom and Self-Evidence in 'The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education' by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes
Chapter 4. New-Managerial Ontology: Materiality, Vision and Disclosure in 'Non-Representational Theory' by Nigel Thrift.
