TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthew Charles
AU  - Jonida Gashi
AU  - Judith Balso
AU  - Nick Skiadopoulos
AU  - Sina Badiei
AU  - Denisa Kera
AU  - Tijana Stevanović
AU  - Justin Joque
AU  - Vincent W.J.van Gerven Oei (edand author)
AU  - Adam Staley Groves (edand author)
AU  - Nico Jenkins (edand author)
AU  - Christopher Fynsk
AU  - Oliver Feltham
AU  - Julia Hölzl
AU  - John Van Houdt
AU  - Edith Doron
AU  - Urok Shirhan
AU  - Jonas Staal
AU  - Katharina Stadler
AU  - Andreas Vrahimis
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Pedagogies of Disaster
SN  - 9780615898711
PY  - 2013///
PB  - punctum Books
KW  - Social Science / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Theory and practice of education
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university, which also has immediate effects in academic peripheries such as the Balkans, the Middle East, or South-East Asia, is of great influence for the pedagogical practice of "less profitable" academic areas such as the Humanities: philosophy, languages, sociology, anthropology, history. Because of the absence of a historically grounded establishment of the Humanities, academic peripheries, usually accompanied by a weak civil society infrastructure, seem to offer the most fertile ground for rethinking the Humanities, their pedagogical practice, and their politics, as well as the greatest threats, such as the ongoing capitalization of research, and profitability as the norm of educational achievement. The sprawling presence of for-profit universities and in academic peripheries such as Albania and Kosovo is indicative of this problematic, as are consistent underfunding of universities and the relentless budget cuts in American and English, and to a lesser extent European, universities. Motivations for this ongoing attack on the university are often driven by a political system or a politics with an aggressive stance to critical thought
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/84301/
ER  -