VOLUME 2(2) • 2014
INTRODUCTION TO AN EXPERIMENT
Late last year I wrote to a group of scholars about a possible experiment with my new journal Knowledge Cultures under the heading of “Education, Philosophy and Political Economy” with an invitation to respond in a short piece to an article I wrote called “Four Contexts for Philosophy of Education a..
FOUR CONTEXTS FOR PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION TO ECONOMIC POLICY
ABSTRACT. This paper provides four contexts for philosophy of education and its relation to economic policy: The ancient the tripos of philosophy, politics and education; Scottish political economy based on the work of Hutcheson, Hume, Ferguson and Smith; Foucault’s neoliberal governmentality; and l..
EDUCATION, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE RECLAMATION OF THE IMAGINATION
ABSTRACT. This is a philosophical argument in defence of a traditional approach to learning. The traditional approach focuses on hard work, persistence, durability, character, thinking and creation. The article takes issue with the post-modern style of education that is rooted, socially, in a mix of..
IN RESPONSE TO FOUR CONTEXTS: THREE IDEAL TYPES
ABSTRACT. With Michael Peters’ “Four Contexts for Philosophy of Education and its Relation to Economic Policy” and its emphasis on political economy as my starting-pont, I address the idea of education as the institutionalization of the activities involved in society’s self-perpetuation: its making ..
THE COLLAPSE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE ADVENT OF UNLEARNING SOCIETY • What can we learn from the advent of political economy and the collapse of industrial society?
ABSTRACT. Just like the Christian societies at the dawn of the science of political economy, today’s societies are face to face with the fact that their modes of organisation and representation are inadequate when confronted with the consequences of their own, earlier, decisions. The economy and pol..
THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EDUCATION POLICY: CULTURAL POLITICS, MOBILITY AND THE MARKET
ABSTRACT. This paper responds to Michael Peters’ paper in this issue, specifically the articulation of the economic in the non-economic parts of contemporary life, and the explication of neoliberalism in governnmentality inspired work. We do this by focusing on the field of New Political Economy, an..
ECONOMICS AND FOUCAULDIAN EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY: A POLEMICAL ESSAY
ABSTRACT. This essay is an appreciative response to “Four Contexts for Philosophy of Education and its Relation to Economic Policy”, by Michael A. Peters. It distinguishes between three types of economics: orthodox, orgasmic, and heterodox. A specifically Marxist variant of the heterodox variety is ..
LOOKING BEYOND NEOLIBERAL TERTIARY EDUCATION POLICY FROM TAOIST AND MĀORI PERSPECTIVES
ABSTRACT. For academics inhabiting contemporary universities, it is impossible to escape the influence of neoliberal ideas. Neoliberalism, in its different forms, has left an indelible mark on the tertiary education landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand and many other countries of the Western world. It ..
CLEVER BEASTS
ABSTRACT. We live in circumstances where the future is uncertain, and problematic, and the global form of organising resources and relationships, global capitalism is so structured that it cannot flourish in circumstances of financial and ecological decline. Therefore it seeks to expand where it can..
A CONTEXT FOR EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
ABSTRACT. This essay argues for locating the philosophy of education within a context characterized as political economy, by which is meant a holistic theory of human relations taken in the round. Smith and Marx, from whom we can still learn, were classical exponents of this approach. Their great le..
TOWARDS A RESEARCH AGENDA OF MULTIPERSPECTIVITY: POTENTIALS OF AN INTEGRATED DIVERSITY-INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH IN ACADEMIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
ABSTRACT. The article addresses the nexus of power, knowledge and transformation in a discourse analytical perspective. Disciplinary rationalizations and reconstructions of transformation and knowledge creation are the starting point for potentials of multiperspectivity within the paradigm of an int..
PROGRAMMING THE NEW SPIRIT OF EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. This paper responds to the provocation provided by Peters’ ‘Four Contexts for Philosophy of Education and its Relation to Economic Policy.’ It is in one sense another provocation that invites consideration of the ascendancy of forms of neoliberalism concurrent and interactive with epoch ma..