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

摘要: This provocative book's starting point is a deep and profound concern about the commodification of knowledge within contemporary university. Acts Knowing aims to provide readers with means understanding issues from perspective Critical Pedagogy; an educational philosophy which believes that 'knowing' must be freed constraints financial managerialist logics dominate university. Pedagogy important for three key reasons: it conceptualises pedagogy as process engagement between teacher taught; secondly based on underlying humanistic view human worth value; thirdly can come out this needs understood essentially exchange people, rather than exchange. Cowden Singh argue conception education simply securing economic returns individual society's positioning in global marketplace, represents fundamentally impoverished education, impoverishes not just individuals, but society whole.