Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood (Palgrave Critical University Studies)

Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood (Palgrave Critical University Studies) image
ISBN-10:

331952982X

ISBN-13:

9783319529820

Author(s): Cocks, Neil
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Released: Mar 23, 2017
Format: Hardcover, 106 pages
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Description:

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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