VOLUME 5(1) • 2017
INTRODUCTION: ECONOMY, INNOVATION, EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. Welcome to the first issue for 2017 and Volume 5 of Knowledge Cultures journal. This is our first general issue as co-editors, since taking over a year ago from founding Editor, Michael A. Peters. In founding Knowledge Cultures in 2013 as a new interdisciplinary journal, Peters capitalised..
AUTHORITARIANISM, CLASS WARFARE, AND THE ADVANCE OF NEOLIBERAL AUSTERITY POLICIES
ABSTRACT. Under the diverse regimes of neoliberalism, policy has become weaponized against those considered disposable in a market economy. While state repression is the default register for maintaining class control, austerity policies now function as a tool, not only to shift resources largely int..
EDUCATION FOR A POST-WORK FUTURE: AUTOMATION, PRECARITY, AND STAGNATION
ABSTRACT. This paper considers how mainstream economic conceptions of education and employment are losing coherence as technological displacement of labor tracks with global economic stagnation and inequality. The paper engages in what Daniel Bell once referred to as “social forecasting” to suggest ..
CONFRONTING NEOLIBERALISM THROUGH A PARRHESIASTIC PRAXIS IN THE STEERED UNIVERSITY, AND BEYOND
ABSTRACT. The discursive politics of neoliberal governmentality have had a profound impact on all aspects of the work of universities. Global discourses of knowledge capitalism that reinforce the idea of the university as an ‘engine of capitalism’ reverberate from supranational sources such as the O..
GLOBALISM AND THE EXPERIMENT OF OPENNESS
ABSTRACT. This paper provides an introduction to three globalisms of education: the neoliberal story of increasing world economic integration; the postcolonial story of decolonization and cultural difference that includes the movement of self-determination based on the analysis of inherent unequal p..
THE OPEN EDUCATION MOVEMENT: IS THIS THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION?
ABSTRACT. Open Education (OE) is an emerging phenomenon which has become feasible through the advancement of Information Communication Technology (ICT), in particular the World Wide Web (Web). This article explores the origins of OE, from early concepts to current implementation and makes prediction..
COLLECTIVE WRITING: AN INQUIRY INTO PRAXIS
ABSTRACT. This is the second text in the series collectively written by members of the Editors’ Collective, which comprises a series of individual and collaborative reflections upon the experience of contributing to the previous and first text written by the Editors’ Collective: ‘Towards a Philosoph..