<p>The roots of the exclusion and alienation of women and minorities from scientific knowledge may well lie in how science itself is taught. While academic feminist critiques of science and science education are important, the authors believe that more attention has to be paid to what non-academics think and feel about science. Here is a starting point for developing a feminist pedagogy around science in the larger community.</p>

Common Science?: Women, Science, and Knowledge (Race, Gender, and Science)

Politics & Social Sciences

Birke, Lynda

Barr, Jean

Social Sciences

Indiana University Press

The roots of the exclusion and alienation of women and minorities from scientific knowledge may well lie in how science itself is taught. While academic feminist critiques of science and science education are important, the authors believe that more attention has to be paid to what non-academics think and feel about science. Here is a starting point for developing a feminist pedagogy around science in the larger community.

Common Science?: Women, Science, and Knowledge (Race, Gender, & Scie)

Taylor (U. of Leeds), Barr and Steele (both U. of Glasgow) argue that current challenges faced by higher education are leading to the effective incorporation of the academic world into the arena of corporate capital and its ideology. Radical educators must counter this trend, and reassert a progressive and revitalized commitment to a higher education which is critical, skeptical, and encourages open and vigorous contestation of knowledge and values. They address these issues from several standpoints: political and social theory; philosophy; cultural studies; contemporary history; and socialist, feminist, and libertarian theories. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

For a Radical Higher Education: After Postmodernism

Steele, Tom

Taylor, Richard K. S.

Philosophy

Open Univ Pr

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Soup Can Make You Thin

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Kirk, Fiona

Main Courses & Side Dishes

Painless Publishing

Increasing numbers of people now receive a higher education. Yet we still do not have that 'educated public' about which the philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, wrote two decades ago. The stranger within: On the idea of an educated public reflects on this situation, regarding the future shape of the university as a kind of public sphere in exile and a site of social and cultural interpenetration. At its centre is a revaluation of the Scottish tradition of 'democratic intellectualism', highlighted by George Davie in his book The democratic intellect (1961). Davie charts the gradual extinction in the Scottish universities of a type of higher education which encouraged breadth of study, public engagement and, through the compulsory study of philosophy, a concern with theory and ideas. The stranger within: On the idea of an educated public seeks to reframe this Scottish tradition and its associated ideal of an educated public in light of recent debates concerning cultural difference, the nation, imperialism and globalisation. It investigates how the radical social purpose inherent in the democratic intellect tradition might be re-vitalised to become a feature of higher education and of a more broadly based popular education worldwide. The book is underpinned by philosophical, social and cultural studies and it draws specifically on radical adult education practices related to social movements and to liberating knowledge 'from below'. It should be a valuable resource for academics from different disciples who wish to communicate across disciplines about key issues of the day; to managers in higher education who wish to counteract the fragmentation of disciplines; and to adult, community and lifelong education workers, and members of the wider public who seek strategies to counter current educational and 'lifelong learning' orthodoxies. Cover illustration: Cell 1, etching by Jo Ganter.

The Stranger Within

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Brill Academic Pub

Sense Pub

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