Education: A reflection of quality: Instrumental reason, quality audits and the knowledge economy

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 140-147

  Howie, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249371230     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8705.00463     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. R. Jonathan, 'Illusory Freedoms: Liberalism, Education and the Market', in Journal of Philosophy of Education, 31:1 (March 1997)
2. For a discussion of education in terms of 'becoming a person', see G. Langford, Education, Persons and Society: A Philosophical Enquiry (London: Macmillan, 1985)
3. J. F. Lyotard, 'The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge', trans. G. Bennington and B. Massumi (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984), 48-50
4. For a discussion of gender and the RAE, consider the Mercer vs LSE case in Erica Halvorsen, 'Gender Audit' and, for a discussion of discrimination, peer review and grant awards, see B. Bagilhole, 'Against the Odds?: Reflections on Women Academics' Research Opportunities', both in G. Howie and A. Tauchert (eds), Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (London: Ashgate, 2002)
5. See G. Howie and A. Tauchert, 'Institutional Discrimination and the Encloistered Academic Ideal', in Howie and Tauchert (eds), Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education
6. M. Loughlin, Ethics, Management and Mythology: Rational Decision Making for Health Service Professionals (Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2002), 63-76
7. See T. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973), 43-7
8. C. Winch, 'Quality and Education', in Journal of Philosophy of Education, 30:1 (March 1996)
9. For a discussion of the public and private uses of reason, see I. Kant 'An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?', in H. Reiss (ed.), Political Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
10. See T. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, trans. E. Jephcott (London: Verso, 1987), 196-7