Building knowledge cultures : education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism

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Author:

Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-

ISBN:

9780742517912

9780742517905

Personal Author:

Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-

Publication Information:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

Physical Description:

225 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Critical education policy and politics.

Series Title:

Critical education policy and politics.

Contents:

Cultural knowledge economy: education, the new economy and the communicative turn -- The politics of postmodernity and the promise of education -- Education policy in the age of knowledge capitalism -- National policy constructions of the 'knowledge economy': towards a critique -- Classical political economy and the role of universities in the new knowledge economy -- The theatre of fast knowledge: performative epistemologies -- The new pedagogy and social learning: current pedagogic research and practice -- Theorising educational practices: the politico-ethical choices -- Knowledge networks, innovation and development: education after modernization -- Educational policy futures.

Subject Term:

Education -- Economic aspects.

Knowledge management -- Economic aspects.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Postmodernism and education.

Added Author:

Besley, Tina, 1950-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005032025.html

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Summary

This book develops the notion of 'knowledge cultures' as a basis for understanding the possibilities of education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism. 'Knowledge cultures' refers to the cultural preconditions in the new production of knowledge and their basis in shared practices, embodying preferred ways of doing things often developed over many generations. These practices also point to the way in which cultures have different repertoires of representational and non-representational forms of knowing. The book discusses knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the new economy, as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. It focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, 'fast knowledge' and the role of the so-called 'new pedagogy' and social learning under these conditions.