These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing
student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.
That is, the idea that the best value is achieved by concentrating resources / opportunities on the very best is countered by the idea that the best arises out of the
surplus production of knowledge, along with a few surprises from unexpected sources, and it is that surplus, or ordinary science, in Kuhn's terms, that needs supporting.
It will affect the way teachers understand themselves and could create a sense that they aren't just the consumers, but participating in
the production of knowledge.»
JMBT: You note that critical pedagogy ``... draws attention to questions concerning who has control over the conditions for
the production of knowledge, values, and skills, and it illuminates how knowledge, identities, and authority are constructed within particular sets of social relations».
The production of knowledge at the heart of this market driven regime is a form of instrumental rationality that quantifies all forms of meaning, privatizes social relations, dehistoricizes memory, and substitutes training for education while reducing the obligations of citizenship to the act of consuming.
The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects.
HG: What this questions registers is how do power, politics and knowledge connect in creating the conditions for
the production of knowledge, values, subjectivities, and social relations in both the school and the classroom.
Who, actually, has control over
the production of knowledge?
It draws attention to questions concerning who has control over the conditions for
the production of knowledge, values, and skills, and it illuminates how knowledge, identities, and authority are constructed within particular sets of social relations.
But in neoliberal societies, sovereignty is often in the hands of major corporations that now have power over not only
the production of knowledge but also over the implementation of policies that bear down on matters of life and death, living and surviving.
Scholars and postgraduate students, because of their research experience, are engaged in
the production of knowledge.
Eloise Hawser (b. 1985) Eloise Hawser works with an expanded notion of «fabrication», looking at
the production of knowledge, networks, and individual objects.
Starting with the premise that memory is political, her projects examine structures of time, memory, and
the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders.
This approach is based on the belief that a contemporary gallery ought to be more than a commercial space and can become a matrix for the development or new practices and
the production of knowledge.
Looking at the intersection of social, technological and aesthetic debate, the show will «reflect on how comprehensively the digital realm influences every area of our daily life, our perception and
our production of knowledge» and includes work by Sophia Al Maria, Auto Italia South East, Guan Xiao, Katja Novitskova, Yuri Pattison, Tabita Rezaire, and Rachel de Joode among others.
surcontexto is a contemporary art platform based in Montevideo, Uruguay, dedicated to generating projects that prioritize
the production of knowledge and experience of curatorial and artistic practices today with its focus on South and Latin American art and culture.
About Academia addresses the problematic relationship between
the production of knowledge and economic power.
By employing contemporary art as a medium for
the production of knowledge and education and presenting it along with objects of visual culture, the initiative seeks to open up an experimental sphere of activity for the epistemic value of images and objects within the university.
This important work by John Latham, one of the founders of British conceptualism, challenges notions of what sculpture can be and poses questions about materiality, found objects, assemblage, destruction and
the production of knowledge.
This project investigates the complicated, often contradictory relationship between
the production of knowledge and economic power, specifically as it concerns the structure and function of the university.
They reflect how comprehensive the digital aspect influences all areas of our everyday life, our perception and
production of knowledge.
Hồng - Ân Trương's interdisciplinary projects using video, sound, photography, and performance examine structures of time, memory, and
the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders.
Given my research and practice interests, I am fascinated by anyone exploring the notion of human networks, collectives or connectives for
the production of knowledge.