Performativity, Politics and Education

Peter Roberts is Professor of Education and Director of the Educational Theory, Policy and Practice Research Hub at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His primary areas of scholarship are philosophy of education and educational policy studies.

• Notes on Original PublicationsIntroduction: From Policy to Philosophy: Education in the Era ofPerformativity1 Performativity, Big Data and Higher Education: The Death of the Professor?1 Introduction2 Knowledge, Performativity and the Death of the Professor3 Higher Education in the Age of Big Data4 Conclusion2 Academic Dystopia: Knowledge, Efficiency and Intellectual Life1 Introduction2 Knowledge, Efffijiciency and Performativity3 Performance-Based Research Funding in New Zealand4 Lyotard, Tertiary Education and the PBRF5 Conclusion: A Dystopian Future for the Academy?3 Higher Education, Impact and the Internet: Publishing, Politics and Performativity1 Introduction2 Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Internet3 Peer Review, Performativity and Impact4 Concluding Remarks4 Problematising Productivity: Neoliberalism, Wellbeing and Education1 Introduction2 The Productivity Commission’s Report: Context and Content3 A Critique4 Conclusion5 ‘It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times …’: Philosophy of Education in the Contemporary World1 Introduction2 Shifting Sands: The Evolution of PESA3 Philosophy of Education as a Way of Life4 Conclusion6 A Philosophy of Hope: Pedagogy, Politics and Humanisation1 Introduction2 Paulo Freire: Philosophy, Pedagogy, Practice3 Critical, Engaged Teaching: Ira Shor and bell hooks4 Conclusion: A Philosophy of Hope7 Philosophy of Education as a Way of Life: A Case Study1 Introduction2 Schooling and Uuniversity Experiences3 Academic Life4 ConclusionReferencesIndex