Title : | Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy : knowledge, power, and politics | Material Type: | printed text | Authors: | Sverker Sörlin, Editor ; Hebe Vessuri, Editor | Edition statement: | 1st ed. | Publisher: | New York : Palgrave Macmillian | Publication Date: | 2007 | Pagination: | vi, 208 p. | Layout: | ill. | Size: | 25 cm | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-403-97304-7 | General note: | Includes bibliographical references and index | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | Descriptors: | Knowledge management - Economy aspects Knowledge, Sociology of
| Class number: | 306.43 | Abstract: | "Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy"- new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions world-wide, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that it can meet increasingly global goals and demands. | Contents note: | The democratic deficit of knowledge economies; Modes of knowledge and patterns of power; Knowledge, theory, and tension between local and universal knowledge; Universities and society : whose terms of engagement?; Knowledge functions and the role of the university; Knowledge, culture, and Politics : The status of women in the arab world; The hybridization of knowledge : science and local knowledge in support of sustainable development; Knowledge, globalization, and hegemony: The production of knowledge in the 21st Century; The democratic deficit of knowledge economies; Modes of knowledge and patterns of power; Knowledge, theory, and tension between local and universal knowledge; Universities and society: Whose terms of engagement?; Knowledge functions and the role of the university; Knowledge, culture, and politics : The status of women in the Arab World; The hybridization of knowledge : Science and local knowledge in support of sustainable development; Knowledge, globalization, and hegemony : The production of knowledge in the 21st Century; | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14005 |
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