Post-Soviet universities as development in practice: Local experience and global lessons; [Universités post-soviétiques en tant que développement dans la pratique: Expériences locales et leçons mondiales]
Baker N.-J.
2011
Development in Practice
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10.1080/09614524.2011.590881
The university holds a privileged place as the site of knowledge production in social development. Simultaneously, traditions of pedagogy drawing from the liberal arts have evolved within Northern/Western post-secondary educational systems which claim to create citizens through developing the skills of freedom; this claim was central to interventions in post-Soviet university reform projects. The author's university development and reform experiences in the former Soviet Union show that a depoliticised liberal arts pedagogy in fact reinforced authoritarian practices, and the promise of a liberal arts pedagogy as an emancipatory project remains an ongoing global task of critical knowledge practices. © 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS; Governance and public policy; Social sector
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