What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning. But does open education really offer the ope…
Open Education explores the disruption of the traditional university as a result of the increasingly widespread provision of free online open education
Against value in the arts and education
by McKay, Robert, Bojesen, Emile, Ladkin, Sam
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A multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary volume exploring the damage to the arts, arts' funding and education through the rhetoric, manipulation and auditing of value. The collection includes contributions from anthropology, the history of art, literature, education, musicolo…
<Span><span>A postcolonialist reading of the deployment of the concept of culture in literature, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies. It argues that modernity as understood in the Anglo-US episteme is structured around eurocentrism. </span></span>
Introduction: culture as problem -- Culture/race/nature: Arnold, Tylor -- (Civil) society/nature: Hobbes, Locke, Macaulay -- Imagination/imitation: Shelley, Hobbes, Macaulay, Kipling, Malinowski -- Culture/s: Williams, Leavis, Spencer -- "Race"/cultures: Du Bois, Fletcher, Boas,…
