Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood /

• Main Author: Cocks, Neil (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies
• Subjects: Education.; Literature > Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Higher Education.; Literary Theory.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Transparency and Objecthood
• Chapter 2. ‘[…] not much like a grove […]’: Openness, Object, and Agora in ‘The Lecherous Professor Revisited’ by Diane Purkiss
• Chapter 3. Therapy and its Discontents: Bullying, Freedom and Self-Evidence in 'The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education' by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes
• Chapter 4. New-Managerial Ontology: Materiality, Vision and Disclosure in 'Non-Representational Theory' by Nigel Thrift.