Knowledge as Value: Illumination through Critical Prisms; Part I Critical Questions; Valuing Intellectual Freedom: A Critical Analysis of Policies in Australian Universities; Counting the Currency of Knowledge:New Zealand's Performance-Based Research Fund; Conceptions of Knowledge and the Modern University; Knowledge as Practice: Implications for the Tertiary Sector; Part II Substantive Matters; The Anxiety of Making Academics Over: Resistance and Responsibility in the Academic Development Project; The Internet, the Knowledge Product, & the Craft of History.
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This book considers the place and value of knowledge in contemporary society. "Knowledge" is not a self-evident concept: both its denotations and connotations are historically situated. Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has been a matter of discovery through effort, and "knowledge for its own sake" a taken-for-granted ideal underwriting progressive education as a process which not only taught "for" and "about" something, but also ennobled the soul. While this ideal has not been explicitly rejected, in recent decades there has been a tacit move away from a strong emphasis on its centrality, ev.