Knowledge Compromise(d)? Ways and values of coproduction in academia
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Summary, in Swedish
Popular Abstract in English
Knowledge can be many things; it can be metaphysical, enhancing the understanding of human beings and social relations. It can be hard facts, information, structure and ordering of nature. Knowledge can be inherent in the knowing subject – the emancipated subject, or it can exist as an entity independent of its founder. An apposite metaphor is knowledge as an end in itself or knowledge as a means to an end, do we learn for the joy of knowing or to we learn in order to manipulate an object or phenomenon? This fundamental distinction gives structure to an account of university-society relations from the middle age and up to today. Contemporary knowledge production, it is argued, favours knowledge as a means to an end. The effects may be devastating for any piece of academic knowledge, which cannot prove its immediate value in monetary terms. Academic knowledge needs to be recognised in all its variety in order for the university to remain a trustworthy institution, capable of contributing solutions to the pressing problems of our time.
Knowledge can be many things; it can be metaphysical, enhancing the understanding of human beings and social relations. It can be hard facts, information, structure and ordering of nature. Knowledge can be inherent in the knowing subject – the emancipated subject, or it can exist as an entity independent of its founder. An apposite metaphor is knowledge as an end in itself or knowledge as a means to an end, do we learn for the joy of knowing or to we learn in order to manipulate an object or phenomenon? This fundamental distinction gives structure to an account of university-society relations from the middle age and up to today. Contemporary knowledge production, it is argued, favours knowledge as a means to an end. The effects may be devastating for any piece of academic knowledge, which cannot prove its immediate value in monetary terms. Academic knowledge needs to be recognised in all its variety in order for the university to remain a trustworthy institution, capable of contributing solutions to the pressing problems of our time.
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Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University (Media-Tryck)
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Nyckelord
- epistemology
- knowledge interest
- research policy
- coproduction
- university college
Status
Published
Handledare
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-7623-543-0
- ISBN: 978-91-7623-542-3
Försvarsdatum
20 november 2015
Försvarstid
10:00
Försvarsplats
Room 128, Stora Algatan 4, Lund
Opponent
- Fredrik Åström