Re-configuring academic practice and the research ecology

Allan Parsons University of Westminster

a.parsons@westminster.ac.uk

Presented at the ARLG conference, University of Sussex, 23 June 2014

What is your orientation to:

knowledge the world other people?

Governance Models

Self-governing Market-oriented State-controlled

[“the university without condition”]

Knowledge Production

innovations new technologies knowledge assets intellectual property

Knowledge Production

codified knowledge embodied knowledge collective goods innovation

Five Virtues

technê epistêmê phronêsis sophia nous [metis]

Knowledge Producers

Philosophers Encyclopaedists Bibliographers Librarians

Knowledge Producers Entrepreneur

Technologist

Researcher

Scholar

Teacher

Curator

[Collector]

Greimas actantial model

Power Desire Control

Entrepreneur

Technologist Researcher

Scholar

Teacher Curator

(Collector)

(Acquirer)

Desire: Power: Control:

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Select Bibliography Keeling, R. (2006). The Bologna Process and the Lisbon Research Agenda: the European Commission’s expanding role in higher education discourse. European Journal of Education, 41 (2), pp.203–223. Machlup, F. (1982). Knowledge: its creation, distribution, and economic significance. Volume II: The Branches of Learning. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Parry, R. (2007). Episteme and techne. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), pp.1–17. Available at: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/episteme-techne/