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On the Facilitation of the Academy

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Editors:
  1. Elias Westergaard

    1. Copenhagen, Denmark

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  2. Joachim S. Wiewiura

    1. Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • In its brevity, this book is unique for bringing together different original scholarly publications (from Mladen Dolar’s internationally acclaimed psychoanalytic approach to Ray Land’s educationally ground-breaking theory of curricula) and, as such, provides a wide spectrum of insightful ideas on education and learning for university teachers, students and administrators at the university level.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Paradoxical Tensions Between Bildung and Ausbildung in Academia

    • Birgit Schaffar, Michael Uljens
    Pages 1-15

  3. Facilitating the Academy through Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge

    • Ray Land
    Pages 17-29

  4. The Master and the Professor are Dead, and I am not Feeling Well Myself

    • Mladen Dolar
    Pages 31-43

  5. The Discourse of the University1

    • Henrik Jøker Bjerre
    Pages 45-55

  6. Collaborative Knowledge2

    • David Budtz Pedersen
    Pages 57-70

  7. Thinking Beyond Instrumentality

    • Artur Matos Alves
    Pages 71-86

  8. Top-Down University Governance Eradicates Thinking and Good Teaching1

    • Steen Nepper Larsen
    Pages 87-100
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About this book

"The ‘academy’ is not restricted to the architectural limits of the university, but a broader conception of education that, through its social dissemination, ought to be continually shaped in relation to academic practice, thinking and living. Educational institutions are not solely modern providers of a pertinent workforce but foremost communities of thought with cultural, political and social importance. On the Facilitation of the Academy is thus concerned with educational issues that cohere, but also quarrels with, the university institution today as the highest institutionalised place for learning. The contributors in this volume consider practices of learning, teaching and knowledge acquisition in academic environments. It challenges educational issues in relation to conversation, discourse and tradition as well as contains contributions on threshold concepts, knowledge production and dangerous thinking. Belonging to a variety of academic orientations – philosophy, educational theory, psychoanalysis, communication studies – the authors in this volume offer different takes, but share similar features and aspects, on the worries that should occupy academe today."

Editors and Affiliations

  • Copenhagen, Denmark

    Elias Westergaard, Joachim S. Wiewiura

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On the Facilitation of the Academy

  • Editors: Elias Westergaard, Joachim S. Wiewiura

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-974-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-974-6Published: 17 March 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 100

  • Topics: Education, general

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