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6Education under the Heel of Caesar: Reading UK Higher Education Reform through Shakespeare's Antony and CleopatraIn Richard Smith (ed.), Education Policy, Wiley. 2013-04-11.UK higher education reform (BIS, 2011) has been presented as a common‐sense movement towards efficiency. This article will argue that, in reality, the marketisation of higher education is a movement towards negative freedom, defined after Berlin (2007) as unrestricted choice. Using Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra as a means to explore the relationship between rationality and sensibility, it considers how negative freedom may undermine human connectivity and debase our relationships. In so doi…Read more
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16Education at the end of history: A response to Francis FukuyamaEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (2): 160-170. 2021.By 1989, fascism had long been defeated in Europe, and reforms in the Soviet Union appeared to signify the collapse of communist ideology, prompting Francis Fukuyama to famously declare the ‘end of...
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10Virtue and the quiet art of scholarship: Reclaiming the university: by A. Pirrie, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, Hardback ISBN 978-1-13-848691-1, Price: £115.00 (eBook), ISBN 978-1-35-104435-6, Price: from £20.00, 138 pagesEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (1): 101-103. 2019.The title of Pirrie’s book implies that the seizure of the university by the forces of neoliberalism might be thwarted through the employment of a subtle art of resistance. She wastes no tim...
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20Education Under the Heel of Caesar: Reading UK Higher Education Reform through Shakespeare's Antony and CleopatraJournal of Philosophy of Education 46 (4): 619-630. 2012.UK higher education reform (BIS, ) has been presented as a common-sense movement towards efficiency. This article will argue that, in reality, the marketisation of higher education is a movement towards negative freedom, defined after Berlin () as unrestricted choice. Using Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra as a means to explore the relationship between rationality and sensibility, it considers how negative freedom may undermine human connectivity and debase our relationships. In so doing, this…Read more
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Philosophy, Misc |
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