Developing transformative spaces in higher education : learning to transgress / edited by Sue Jackson.
"Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education : Learning to Transgress demonstrates th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge research in higher education.
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| Summary: | "Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education : Learning to Transgress demonstrates that even when knowledge may appear to be the solution, it can be partial and disempowering to all but the dominant groups. The book shows the need to contest such knowledge claims and to learn to transgress, rather than to conform. It argues that transformative spaces need to be found and that these should be about the creation of new opportunities, ways of knowing and ways of being"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781315182421 1315182424 9781351725132 1351725130 9781351725149 1351725149 9781351725125 1351725122 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |