Research Catalog

Title

Building knowledge cultures : education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism / Michael A. Peters with A.C. (Tina) Besley.

Author

Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Besley, Tina, 1950-

Description

x, 225 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Critical education policy and politics

Uniform Title

Critical education policy and politics

Subject

• Education > Economic aspects
• Knowledge management > Economic aspects
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Postmodernism and education
• sociology of knowledge
• Education > Economic aspects
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Postmodernism and education
• Pädagogische Soziologie
• Wissensmanagement
• Hoger onderwijs
• Kennissociologie
• Onderwijsbeleid
• Economische aspecten

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-214) and index.

Contents

Cultural knowledge economy: education, the new economy, and the communicative turn -- The politics of postmodernity and the promise of education -- Education policy in the age of knowledge capitalism -- National education policy constructions of the knowledge economy -- Universities, globalization, and the new political economy of knowledge -- The theater of fast knowledge: performative epistemologies -- The new pedagogy and social learning -- Theorizing educational practices: the politico-ethical choices -- Knowledge networks, innovation, and development: education after modernization -- Educational policy futures.

ISBN

• 074251790X
• 9780742517905
• 0742517918
• 9780742517912

LCCN

• 2005032025
• 9780742517905
• 9780742517912

OCLC

• ocm62322201
• 62322201
• SCSB-8905573

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library