Format:
1 online resource (552 pages).
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
9780615898711
Content:
We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university, which also has immediate effects in academic peripheries such as the Balkans, the Middle East, or South-East Asia, is of great influence for the pedagogical practice of "less profitable" academic areas such as the Humanities: philosophy, languages, sociology, anthropology, history. Because of the absence of a historically grounded establishment of the Humanities, academic peripheries, usually accompanied by a weak civil society infrastructure, seem to offer the most fertile ground for rethinking the Humanities, their pedagogical practice, and their politics, as well as the greatest threats, such as the ongoing capitalization of research, and profitability as the norm of educational achievement. The sprawling presence of for-profit universities and in academic peripheries such as Albania and Kosovo is indicative of this problematic, as are consistent underfunding of universities and the relentless budget cuts in American and English, and to a lesser extent European, universities. Motivations for this ongoing attack on the university are often driven by a political system or a politics with an aggressive stance to critical thought.
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Available through punctum books.
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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei · Opening Christopher Fynsk · A Pedagogy on the Verge of Disaster Oliver Feltham · Desocializing the School: Education and the Action-Zone Adam Staley Groves · Sandy Hook University: Poetic Violence, Scope, and Style of Imagination Julia Hölzl · A Call for Thinking (The Disaster) John Van Houdt · The Rhetoric of Disaster: Surviving the End of the Humanities Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei · A Passion for Yes: Coming Out and Affirmation Edith Doron · Welcoming the Stranger: From Social Inclusion to Exilic Education Urok Shirhan · Occupy Baghdad: On the Occupation of Images Jonas Staal · Art After Democratism: The Pedagogy of the New World Summit Katharina Stadler · "Reading on Disaster" Intervention: Imaginaries in Participatory Artistic Practice Manifesto for Education in Albania Andreas Vrahimis · Philosophy and Humanistic Education: J.S. Mill's Catastrophic Pedagogy Matthew Charles · Walter Benjamin and the Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism Nico Jenkins · Philosophy beyond the Peras: Thinking with/in the Periphery Justin Joque · Cyber-Catastrophe: Towards a New Pedagogy of Entropy Tijana Stevanović · Faculty in Withdrawal: Not To Know and the Uncertainties of Self-Institutionalization Denisa Kera · On Prototypes: Should We Eat Mao's Pear, Sail Saint-Exupéry's Boat, Drink with Heidegger's Pitcher, or Use Nietzsche's Hammer to Respond to the Crisis? Sina Badiei · The Necessity of Education: Or How Can One Still Be an Althusserian in the Wake of Badiou? Nick Skiadopoulos · The University Must Be Transcended Judith Balso · Compter sur l'impossible inexistant / To Rely on the Inexistent Impossible Constitution of Happiness Jonida Gashi · Translator's Note
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Albanian
DOI:
10.21983/P3.0050.1.00
