Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism by Peters, Michael A.

Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780742517905)

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Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism by Peters, Michael A.

Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism

$139.00
Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism by Peters, Michael A.

Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism

$139.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book develops the notion of 'knowledge cultures' as a basis for understanding the possibilities of education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism. 'Knowledge cultures' refers to the cultural preconditions in the new production of knowledge and their basis in shared practices, embodying preferred ways of doing things often developed over many generations. These practices also point to the way in which cultures have different repertoires of representational and non-representational forms of knowing. The book discusses knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the new economy, as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. It focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, 'fast knowledge' and the role of the so-called 'new pedagogy' and social learning under these conditions.

Author: Michael A. Peters,Tina Besley
ISBN-10: 074251790X
ISBN-13: 9780742517905
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By Michael A. Peters
By Michael A. Peters
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Michael A. Peters is professor of education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of over twenty-five books and edited collections, including most recently Education, Globalization and the State in the Age of Terrorism (2005, Paradigm Publishers). Tina Besley is visiting research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of many papers for international journals and a number of books, including Counseling Youth: Foucault, Power and the Ethics of Subjectivity (Praeger).

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