Post-Soviet universities as development in practice: local experience and global lessons

Author(s)
Baker, Norma-Jo
Publication date
2011-11-01
Subject
Education
Governance and citizenship
Keywords
Capacity building
Social enterprise
Empowerment

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Routledge
Journal
Development in Practice
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/270008
DOI
10.1080/09614524.2011.590881
Document type
Journal article
Language
English
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.
Pages
11
ISSN
0961-4524
EISSN
1364-9213
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