Debates around education tend to be constructed through a series of oppositions, the student-centred against the didactic, the innovative against the traditional, the free against the controlled. Rather than attempting to resolve such conflicts, this book analyses the extent to which the various sides can be read as sharing a range of assumptions about pedagogical purpose and process.  In charting the various ways in which the student's desires are claimed to be known, its independence guaranteed, and its growth optimised, the book makes a plea for the role of close textual analysis in any engagement with educational discourse.  It is argued that until the student is read as a construction, rather than observed as a fact, the various sides in education theory will not be able to address the consensus their work is dependent upon.

Student-Centred: Education, Freedom and the Idea of Audience

Education & Teaching

Cocks, Neil

Higher & Continuing Education

InkerMen Press

<p>This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the established body of educational theory. The unconventional methodology and focus promote irreducible difference and complexity, and in this stage a resistance to reductive discourses of managerialism. Questioning the materialism to which all sides of the contemporary pedagogical debate increasingly appeal, the book sets out a challenge to investments in ‘excellence’, ‘transparency’ and objecthood. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, and literary theory.</p>

Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood (Palgrave Critical University Studies)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the established body of educational theory. The unconventional methodology and focus promote irreducible difference and complexity, and in this stage a resistance to reductive discourses of managerialism. Questioning the materialism to which all sides of the contemporary pedagogical debate increasingly appeal, the book sets out a challenge to investments in ‘excellence’, ‘transparency’ and objecthood. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, and literary theory.

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Student-Centred: Education, Freedom and the Idea of Audience

Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood (Palgrave Critical University Studies)

Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood (Palgrave Critical University Studies)