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The knowledge contract : politics and paradigms in the academic workplace /

"The Knowledge Contract intervenes in the ongoing debates about the changing conditions of higher education in America, with a special focus on English studies and the humanities. This highly original study integrates three crucial concerns: the economic restructuring of higher education, the t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Downing, David B., 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Writing the knowledge contract : an introduction
  • Working outside (and beside) the knowledge contract
  • Professions, disciplines, and paradigms : reconstructing academic labor within the nonmodern university
  • Paradigms performed and the Kuhnification of the humanities
  • Radical diversities and the cosmopolitan self : the disciplinary intellectual confronts the multivalent university
  • Pragmatic interventions : the lure of method and the rise of disciplinary labor
  • The "mop-up" work of theory anthologies : theorizing the discipline and the disciplining of theory
  • Beside disciplinary English : working for professional solidarity by reforming academic labor
  • Imagined futures : a miniepilogue.