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oapen-20.500.12657-588472022-10-15T03:24:59Z Experiments in Decolonizing the University Schildermans, Hans Higher and further education, tertiary education Philosophy and theory of education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy & theory of education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher & further education, tertiary education The book addresses the need to reconsider the relation between university and society, a debate that has been going on from the Middle Ages to Kant, Humboldt, Newman, and beyond. Hans Schildermans builds on the philosophy and theory of higher education, drawing on the work of John Dewey, Donna Haraway, William James, Bruno Latour, Martin Savransky, Isabelle Stengers and Alfred North Whitehead. In relation to the study practices of the Palestinian experimental university ‘Campus in Camps’, he develops the concept of an ecology of study to approach the relation between university and society from a new angle. The book avoids the two positions that are traditionally defended, namely the idea of the autonomous university where research and teaching are performed ‘in freedom and solitude’ on the one hand, and the capitalized university that produces useful knowledge on the other hand. Schildermans emphasizes the importance of study practices as a site of resistance against current neoliberal and capitalist reforms of the university and to envisage a different future for the university. The book will appeal to activists, critical academics and those interested in the fate of higher education today. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 2022-10-14T14:54:53Z 2022-10-14T14:54:53Z 2021 book ONIX_20221014_9781350149847_178 9781350149847 9781350149830 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58847 eng Radical Politics and Education application/pdf n/a 9781350149830.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350149854 10.5040/9781350149854 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350149847 9781350149830 Bloomsbury Academic 200 London open access
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The book addresses the need to reconsider the relation between university and society, a debate that has been going on from the Middle Ages to Kant, Humboldt, Newman, and beyond. Hans Schildermans builds on the philosophy and theory of higher education, drawing on the work of John Dewey, Donna Haraway, William James, Bruno Latour, Martin Savransky, Isabelle Stengers and Alfred North Whitehead. In relation to the study practices of the Palestinian experimental university ‘Campus in Camps’, he develops the concept of an ecology of study to approach the relation between university and society from a new angle. The book avoids the two positions that are traditionally defended, namely the idea of the autonomous university where research and teaching are performed ‘in freedom and solitude’ on the one hand, and the capitalized university that produces useful knowledge on the other hand. Schildermans emphasizes the importance of study practices as a site of resistance against current neoliberal and capitalist reforms of the university and to envisage a different future for the university. The book will appeal to activists, critical academics and those interested in the fate of higher education today. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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