Knowledge as value : illumination through critical prisms

Knowledge as value : illumination through critical prisms / edited by Ian Morley and Mira Crouch.

This book considers the place and value of knowledge in contemporary society. "Knowledge" is not a self-evident concept: both its denotations and connotations are historically situated. Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has been a matter of discovery through effort, and "knowledge fo...

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Other Authors: Morley, Ian, Crouch, Mira
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 50.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of
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Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge as Value: Illumination through Critical Prisms; Part I Critical Questions; Valuing Intellectual Freedom: A Critical Analysis of Policies in Australian Universities; Counting the Currency of Knowledge:New Zealand's Performance-Based Research Fund; Conceptions of Knowledge and the Modern University; Knowledge as Practice: Implications for the Tertiary Sector; Part II Substantive Matters; The Anxiety of Making Academics Over: Resistance and Responsibility in the Academic Development Project; The Internet, the Knowledge Product, & the Craft of History.

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