Challenging Knowledge
Subtitle: The University in the Knowledge Society
Publisher: Society for Research Into Higher Educat Press
Published: May 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780335205783
Subjects: Social theory; Universities / polytechnics; Higher; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education / Teaching; Education, Higher; Knowledge, Sociology of; Social aspects; Universities and colleges; Education
First sentence: The university as a site of knowledge production has always been a central institution in society and mirrors some of the great transformations of modernity in so far as these relate to knowledge, its production, organization, function and status in society.