Post-Soviet universities as development in practice: local experience and global lessons
Baker, Norma-Jo
Baker, Norma-Jo
Citations
Altmetric:
Titre
Publication date
2011-11-01
Document type
Journal article
Pages
11
Author(s)
Advisors
Editor(s)
Other Contributors
Affiliation
ePub Date
Submitted date
Subject
Local subject classification
MeSH
Country
Collections
Description
The university holds a privileged place as the site of knowledge production in social development. Simultaneously, traditions of pedagogy drawing from the liberal arts have evolved within Northern/Western post-secondary educational systems which claim to create citizens through developing the skills of freedom; this claim was central to interventions in post-Soviet university reform projects. The author's university development and reform experiences in the former Soviet Union show that a depoliticised liberal arts pedagogy in fact reinforced authoritarian practices, and the promise of a liberal arts pedagogy as an emancipatory project remains an ongoing global task of critical knowledge practices.
Language
English
Other Titles
Abstract
Citation
Journal
Development in Practice
Journal Theme
Volume
21
Issue
8
Research Unit
Table of contents
Series
ISSN
0961-4524
EISSN
1364-9213