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Author Schildermans, Hans, author.

Title Experiments in decolonizing the university : towards an ecology of study / Hans Schildermans
Published London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Radical politics and education
Radical politics and education.
Contents 1. Introduction : inhabiting the ruins of excellence -- Part 1. Inside the studiers' workshop : the invention of the university and the challenge of the sciences. 2. The university in the middle ages : on the invention of a new use of reason ; 3. How to learn something new? The place of scientific practices at the university -- Part 2. Campus in camps : an experimental university in a Palestinian refugee camp. 4. Beyond victimization and normalization : on questioning situations and studiers' obligations ; 5. Beyond response-able : inquiring into the requirements of a practice of study -- Part 3. A home of adventures : Whitehead's account of the university and its relation to the fugure. 6. The studiers' constraint : Whiteheadian adventures and matters of study ; 7. Making other futures possible : toward a pedagogy of study practices
Summary "This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The book addresses the need to reconsider the relation between university and society, a debate that has been going on from the Middle Ages to Kant, Humboldt, Newman, and beyond. Hans Schildermans builds on the philosophy and theory of higher education, drawing on the work of John Dewey, Donna Haraway, William James, Bruno Latour, Martin Savransky, Isabelle Stengers and Alfred North Whitehead. In relation to the study practices of the Palestinian experimental university 'Campus in Camps', he develops the concept of an ecology of study to approach the relation between university and society from a new angle. The book avoids the two positions that are traditionally defended, namely the idea of the autonomous university where research and teaching are performed 'in freedom and solitude' on the one hand, and the capitalized university that produces useful knowledge on the other hand. Schildermans emphasizes the importance of study practices as a site of resistance against current neoliberal and capitalist reforms of the university and to envisage a different future for the university. The book will appeal to activists, critical academics and those interested in the fate of higher education today."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 -- Influence
SUBJECT Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 fast
Subject Community and college.
Education, Higher -- Philosophy
Education, Higher -- Social aspects
Education -- Palestine -- Experimental methods
Critical pedagogy.
Philosophy & theory of education.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Education, Higher -- Social aspects
Education -- Experimental methods
Critical pedagogy
Community and college
Education, Higher -- Philosophy
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form Discursive works
Discursive works.
Discours et échanges.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781350149854
1350149853
9781350149847
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9781350149830
1350149837