On the Facilitation of the Academy
"The ‘academy’ is not restricted to the architectural limits of the university, but a broader conception of education that, through its social dissemination, ought to be continually shaped in relation to academic practice, thinking and living. Educational
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On the Facilitation of the Academy
Edited by
Elias Westergaard and Joachim S. Wiewiura Copenhagen, Denmark
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
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Introduction Elias Westergaard & Joachim S. Wiewiura
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1. Paradoxical Tensions between Bildung und Ausbildung in Academia: Moving within or beyond the Modern Continental Tradition? Birgit Schaffar & Michael Uljens
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2. Facilitating the Academy through Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge Ray Land
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3. The Master and the Professor Are Dead, and I Am Not Feeling Well Myself Mladen Dolar
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4. The Discourse of the University Henrik Jøker Bjerre
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5. Collaborative Knowledge: The Future of the Academy in the Knowledge-based Economy David Budtz Pedersen
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6. Thinking beyond Instrumentality: What If Dangerous Ideas Were the Future of Academia Artur Matos Alves
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7. Top-down University Governance Eradicates Thinking and Good Teaching Steen Nepper Larsen
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful for the financial support provided by the University of Copenhagen without which this work would not have been possible. We especially owe a great thanks to Sense Publishers and Peter de Liefde for his generous patience with us. In addition, this publication would not have been the same without thoughtful advice from and dialogues with Martin Gak, Henrik Jøker Bjerre, Ray Land, Hans Fink, Thomas Nørgaard and, in general, the thought-provoking conversations and seminars we had as students at the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin. For inspiring suggestions and proof-reading many thanks to Brittany Lewis, Martin Hauberg-Lund, Juan Camilo Toro and Rasmus Vangshardt. Not the least, the contributors to this volume have made the editorial process delightful and we thank them for their forbearance and their willingness to discuss details.
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ELIAS WESTERGAARD & JOACHIM S. WIEWIURA
INTRODUCTION
THE AIM OF FACILITATION
It is due to its social, cultural and political significance that the Academy cannot afford to be an ivory refuge. In the same manner, it should not be a romantic, dishonest utopia. A facilitator of education may toil with the ideal of the learning institution, but just as the Garden of Eden, t
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