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The knowledge contract : politics and paradigms in the academic workplace

Title
The knowledge contract : politics and paradigms in the academic workplace / David B. Downing.
Author
Downing, David B., 1947-
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.

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Description
x, 326 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"The Knowledge Contract intervenes in the ongoing debates about the changing conditions of higher education in America, with a special focus on English studies and the humanities. This highly original study integrates three crucial concerns: the economic restructuring of higher education, the transformation of disciplinary models of teaching and research, and the rise of the academic labor movement." "Whereas most contemporary critiques of higher education have focused on the impact of global economic forces, The Knowledge Contract adds a new dimension to the discussion by addressing the tensions between disciplinary and nondisciplinary forms of academic work."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Universities and colleges > Curricula
  • Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
  • Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
  • Universities and colleges > Curricula
  • Berufssoziologie
  • Hochschullehrer
  • Paradigmenwechsel
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-312) and index.
Contents
Writing the knowledge contract : an introduction -- Working outside (and beside) the knowledge contract -- Professions, disciplines, and paradigms : reconstructing academic labor within the nonmodern university -- Paradigms performed and the Kuhnification of the humanities -- Radical diversities and the cosmopolitan self : the disciplinary intellectual confronts the multivalent university -- Pragmatic interventions : the lure of method and the rise of disciplinary labor -- The "mop-up" work of theory anthologies : theorizing the discipline and the disciplining of theory -- Beside disciplinary English : working for professional solidarity by reforming academic labor -- Imagined futures : a miniepilogue.
ISBN
  • 0803217307
  • 9780803217300
LCCN
  • 2005006605
  • 9780803217300
OCLC
  • ocm58648122
  • 58648122
  • SCSB-8904044
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library