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The knowledge contract : politics and paradigms in the academic workplace / David B. Downing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: x, 326 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0803217307
  • 9780803217300
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.12 22
LOC classification:
  • LB2361 .D69 2005
Contents:
Writing the knowledge contract : an introduction -- 1. Working outside (and beside) the knowledge contract -- 2. Professions, disciplines, and paradigms : reconstructing academic labor within the nonmodern university -- 3. Paradigms performed and the Kuhnification of the humanities -- 4. Radical diversities and the cosmopolitan self : the disciplinary intellectual confronts the multivalent university -- 5. Pragmatic interventions : the lure of method and the rise of disciplinary labor -- 6. The "mop-up" work of theory anthologies : theorizing the discipline and disciplining of theory -- 7. Beside disciplinary English : working for professional solidarity by reforming academic labor -- Imagined futures : a miniepilogue.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index.

Writing the knowledge contract : an introduction -- 1. Working outside (and beside) the knowledge contract -- 2. Professions, disciplines, and paradigms : reconstructing academic labor within the nonmodern university -- 3. Paradigms performed and the Kuhnification of the humanities -- 4. Radical diversities and the cosmopolitan self : the disciplinary intellectual confronts the multivalent university -- 5. Pragmatic interventions : the lure of method and the rise of disciplinary labor -- 6. The "mop-up" work of theory anthologies : theorizing the discipline and disciplining of theory -- 7. Beside disciplinary English : working for professional solidarity by reforming academic labor -- Imagined futures : a miniepilogue.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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