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Properties of Knowledge Matter: A Re-Examination of the Glitz of Entrepreneurialism as a Change Paradigm for Higher Education

Properties of Knowledge Matter: A Re-Examination of the Glitz of Entrepreneurialism as a Change Paradigm for Higher Education

Mary A. Burston
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466662025|ISBN10: 1466662026|EISBN13: 9781466662032
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6202-5.ch012
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Burston, Mary A. "Properties of Knowledge Matter: A Re-Examination of the Glitz of Entrepreneurialism as a Change Paradigm for Higher Education." Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education: Universities in Turbulent Times, edited by Tanya Fitzgerald, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 187-203. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6202-5.ch012

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Burston, M. A. (2014). Properties of Knowledge Matter: A Re-Examination of the Glitz of Entrepreneurialism as a Change Paradigm for Higher Education. In T. Fitzgerald (Ed.), Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education: Universities in Turbulent Times (pp. 187-203). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6202-5.ch012

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Burston, Mary A. "Properties of Knowledge Matter: A Re-Examination of the Glitz of Entrepreneurialism as a Change Paradigm for Higher Education." In Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education: Universities in Turbulent Times, edited by Tanya Fitzgerald, 187-203. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6202-5.ch012

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Abstract

In this theoretical chapter, the concept of fungibility is deployed as an analytical device for re-examining assumptions made about the capacities of entrepreneurialism to transform higher education, learning, and curricula. The purpose is to demonstrate that properties of knowledge matter when it comes to presumptions, policy directives, and promises made about academic and institutional agency and participation in the knowledge economy. From the perspective that not all knowledge is equal in value, the chapter highlights a core conceptual problem underpinning the reform agenda of entrepreneurialism in concluding that properties of knowledge matter for democratic participation in the knowledge economy.

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