Acts of Knowing: Critical Pedagogy In, Against and Beyond the University

by Gurnam Singh and Stephen Cowden

Book Overview

This provocative book's starting point is a deep and profound concern about the commodification of knowledge within the contemporary university.

Acts of Knowing aims to provide readers with a means of understanding the issues from the perspective of Critical Pedagogy; an educational philosophy which believes that 'knowing' must be freed from the constraints of the financial and managerialist logics which dominate the contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441159754
• ISBN13: 9781441159755
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"