Building Knowledge Cultures Education and

The book discusses the notion of knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the new economy and the communicative turn, as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. It focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, fast knowledge and the role of the so-called new pedagogy and social learning under these conditions to argue for knowledge networks as development possibilities in educational policy futures.

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vii

Preface and Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: Building Knowledge Cultures

1

(6)

Cultural Knowledge Economy: Education, the New Economy, and the Communicative Turn

7

(24)

The Politics of Postmodernity and the Promise of Education

31

(18)

Education Policy in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism

49

(14)

National Education Policy Constructions of the Knowledge Economy

63

(20)

Universities, Globalization, and the New Political Economy of Knowledge

83

(12)

The Theater of Fast Knowledge: Performative Epistemologies

95

(18)

The New Pedagogy and Social Learning

113

(24)

Theorizing Educational Practices: The Politico-Ethical Choices

137

(14)

Knowledge Networks, Innovation, and Development: Education after Modernization

151

(18)

Educational Policy Futures

169

(16)

Postscript: Freedom and Knowledge Cultures

185

(12)

Appendix 1

197

(2)

References

199

(16)

Index

215

(10)

About the Authors

225

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Building Knowledge Cultures Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism

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