ERIC Number: EJ1096636
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-1474-0222
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Thinking Academic Freedom
Lange, Lis
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, v15 n2 p177-186 Apr 2016
This lecture argues that the politicisation and instrumentalisation of the university caused by neoliberal frames has as a result the depoliticisation of knowledge and of the academic as individual. This depoliticisation has turned academic freedom into a right to disengage not only from the political fight around these issues but also from the deliberation about knowledge. The lecture uses the thinking of Arendt and Bourdieu to propose a different approach to the conceptualisation and practice of academic freedom. [This article was presented at the Daantjie Oosthuizen Academic Freedom Lecture, Rhodes University, 31 October 2014.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Faculty, Academic Freedom, Politics of Education, Neoliberalism, Social Theories, Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Accountability, Teacher Role, Professional Autonomy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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