Properties of Knowledge Matter

2014 ◽  
pp. 187-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A. Burston
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Conceptual Problem ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Institutional Agency ◽  
Analytical Device

In this theoretical chapter, the concept of fungibility is deployed as an analytical device for re-examining assumptions made about the capacities of entrepreneurialism to transform higher education, learning, and curricula. The purpose is to demonstrate that properties of knowledge matter when it comes to presumptions, policy directives, and promises made about academic and institutional agency and participation in the knowledge economy. From the perspective that not all knowledge is equal in value, the chapter highlights a core conceptual problem underpinning the reform agenda of entrepreneurialism in concluding that properties of knowledge matter for democratic participation in the knowledge economy.

scholarly journals Properties of Knowledge Matter

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Mary A. Burston
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Conceptual Problem ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Institutional Agency ◽  
Analytical Device

In this theoretical chapter, the concept of fungibility is deployed as an analytical device for re-examining assumptions made about the capacities of entrepreneurialism to transform higher education, learning, and curricula. The purpose is to demonstrate that properties of knowledge matter when it comes to presumptions, policy directives, and promises made about academic and institutional agency and participation in the knowledge economy. From the perspective that not all knowledge is equal in value, the chapter highlights a core conceptual problem underpinning the reform agenda of entrepreneurialism in concluding that properties of knowledge matter for democratic participation in the knowledge economy.

From Scarcity to Abundance: Achieving Quality-Assured Mass Higher Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secondary System ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

The United States is in a bind. On the one hand, we need millions of additional citizens with at least one year of successful post-secondary experience to adapt to the knowledge economy. Both the Gates and Lumina Foundations, and our President, have championed this goal in different ways. On the other hand, we have a post-secondary system that is trapped between rising costs and stagnant effectiveness, seemingly unable to respond effectively to this challenge. This paper analyzes several aspects of this problem, describes changes in the society that create the basis for solutions, and offers several examples from Kaplan University of emerging practice that suggests what good practice might look like in a world where quality-assured mass higher education is the norm.

scholarly journals The Wider Impacts of Universities: Habermas on Learning Processes and Universities

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesper Eckhardt Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Functionalist Theory ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The discourse of reform in higher education tends to focus narrowly on employability and the relationship between higher education and the labor market. Universities as research institutions are now considered solely in the dominant discourse of innovation. This way of conceiving universities is inspired by functionalist theory that focuses on the imperatives of a knowledge economy. Taking a departure in the theory of society developed by Jürgen Habermas this paper seeks to provide a theoretical framework for an empirical comparative analysis on the wider societal impact of universities. It is the argument that the wider impacts of higher education and research at universities must be seen in a more complex vision of modern societies. The paper is thus primarily a re-reading of Habermas’ critique of functionalist views of the university and an application of Habermas’ critique on current issues in the debates on higher education. A special discussion will be taken on issues of the self in view of the current tendencies to regard all education from the standpoint of the economic outputs.

scholarly journals On the Space/Time of Information Literacy, Higher Education, and the Global Knowledge Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Information Work

Local sites and practices of information work become embroiled in the larger imperatives and logics of the global knowledge economy through social, technological, and spatial networks. Drawing on human geography’s central claim that space and time are dialectically produced through social practices, in this essay I use human/critical geography as a framework to situate the processes and practices—the space and time—of information literacy within the broader social, political, and economic environments of the global knowledge economy.  As skills training for the knowledge economy, information literacy lies at the intersection of the spatial and temporal spheres of higher education as the locus of human capital production. Information literacy emerges as a priority for academic librarians in the 1980s in the context of neoliberal reforms to higher education: a necessary skill in the burgeoning “information economy,” it legitimates the role of librarians as teachers. As a strategic priority, information literacy serves to demonstrate the library’s value within the university’s globalizing agenda. While there has been a renewed interest in space/time within the humanities and social sciences since the 1980s, LIS has not taken up this “spatial turn” with the same enthusiasm—or the same degree of criticality—as other social science disciplines. This article attempts to address that gap and offers new insights into the ways that the spatial and temporal registers of the global knowledge economy and the neoliberal university produce and regulate the practice of information literacy in the academic library. Pre-print first published online 12/09/2018

scholarly journals Conceptual Vision of the New University in the Works of Modern Scientists: Typology of the Concepts of Innovatisation of the Higher School

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-198
Author(s):  
O. B. Voeykova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
New Type ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The University ◽  
New Industry ◽  
Innovation In Higher Education

This article is devoted to solving the problem of systematizing the existing concepts of innovation in higher education, reflecting the new vision of the university by modern scientists. The author studied the content and conducted a comparative analysis of various concepts relating to the emergence of the future image of the University. First of all, these are the works of the classics of post-industrialism, who defined science and education as a new industry within the emerging knowledge economy and noted the need to form, in this regard, a new type of University. Important potential for understanding the role and place of the University, as well as to get an idea of its supposed (futuristic) model in the new realities have the concepts of innovatization of higher education, the analysis of which is given most of the article. Under the concepts of innovatization of higher education in the article we understand the concept of modern scientists who consider the transformation of the traditional University in its innovative model that meets the needs of the economy and society focused on innovation. The concepts of innovatization are also divided into several types, grouped according to the relevant features, which suggests the possibility of transition to the innovative model of the University in different ways.

scholarly journals PREREQUISITES FOR HARMONIZATION OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM OF UKRAINE WITH THE EU EDUCATIONAL SPACE IN THE CONDITIONS OF FORMATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1(86)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliia Romanusha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
National Education ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Scientific Practical ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
The Eu

The article deals with the study of the problem of determining the integration of higher education in Ukraine with the institutions of the environment in order to harmonize it with the EU educational space to increase the competitiveness of national education and provide a reliable basis for knowledge economy in Ukraine. The research develops a thesis on the understanding of a modern higher education institution as a center for the acquisition and development of professional knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies, as well as a bearer of national traditions. The necessity of development of domestic education on the basis of results of the comparative analysis of positions in the world rating of Ukraine with Poland on the basis of values of indices of level of education, globalization, competitiveness and knowledge economy is substantiated. The development of globalization of higher education in Ukraine is a strategic task and a need for appropriate scientific, practical and conceptual foundations. Based on the results of the study, emphasis is placed on the strategic role and functions of higher education institutions in the processes of globalization of the educational space. In order to identify ways to gain best practices in providing educational services and improve the quality of knowledge and professional skills of graduates, the prerequisites for the need to integrate the education sector of Ukraine with the European space are analyzed. The state of implementation of strategies of integration of domestic institutions of higher education with institutions of external environment in the directions of their integration is investigated: with institutions of academic science; with foreign partners; with corporate sector entities. A retrospective analysis of the preconditions for the integration of Ukraine's education with the European educational space was conducted and a number of problems that need to be addressed were noted. The obtained results allowed to form the author's vision of the role of education in the formation of the knowledge economy in Ukraine and to determine the directions of its improvement by harmonization with the educational space of the EU.

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