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The Value of Knowledge

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In mid-February 2007 a number of academics from a variety of backgrounds and branches of scholarship met in Sydney, Australia to participate in the 1st Global Conference on The Value of Knowledge. This volume is a representation of the proceedings from that conference.

Table of Contents:
PART I The Valuing of Knowledge Managing Knowledge Pluralism S. Ram Vemuri 3 Struggling to Articulate the Value of its Knowledge Base: The Crisis in Contemporary Nursing Heather McKenzie, Maureen Boughton, Lillian Hayes, and Sue Forsyth 15 The Classics & Australian Culture Wars Mark Rolfe 27 Making the Structures Tumble: Knowledge as a Value to Overcome Borders Mireta von Gerlach 47 PART II The Utilization, Application and Influence of Modern Technologies Old Discourse, New Object: Wikipedia Nathaniel Tkacz 57 Data Management in e-Governance Through Push-Pull Technique: A Case Study Gopalkrishna Joshi, Narasimha H. Ayachit and Kamakshi Prasad 69 The Impact of the Internet upon the Commodity of Knowledge & the Craft of History Ian Morley 75 Permanent Linking: A Virtual Learning Environment Content Integration Strategy Tanya du Plessis 85 Most Intellectuals Will Only Half ListenA": Knowledge, Higher Education and Hip-Hop Studies Graham Preston 99 PART III Discourses of Knowledge The Theory vs. Practice Balance at Universities Christine Lee 113 Epistemological Uncertainties in the Discourses of Higher Education Heinz Kreutz 125 A Personalized Curriculum? Richard Allen 137 Why Universities Oversell What We Do Least WellA": Conceptions of Knowledge and the ModernUniversity Francine Rochford 151 The Anxiety of Making Academics Over: Resistance and Responsibility in Academic Development Tai Peseta and Catherine Manathunga 165 PART IV Knowledge in Practice, Knowledge as Strategy Knowledge as Practice: Implications for the Tertiary Sector Stephen Healy 183 Valuing Knowledge: A Strategic Approach to Embedding Research-led Teaching in a LargeAustralianUniversity Jan Schapper and Susan Mayson 197 Valuing Intellectual Freedom: A Critical Analysis of Policies in Australian Universities John McDonald 211 How to Figure it out? The Demise of Matriculation in Australia Mira Crouch 223 Shifting Discourses in Higher Education: The Performance-Based Research Fund in New Zealand Grant Duncan 229 Why Mainland China's Students Study in Australian Higher Education? Moli Yang 239 Changing Priorities in the JapaneseUniversity English Curriculum Robert Kirkpatrick 251 Convergent Trends in Iranian Private Higher Education Farough Amin Mozaffari and Khorshid Padashi Asl 257 Index 269 Notes on Contributors 273

About the Author :
Ian Morley is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Department of History. He is a Council Member of the International Planning History Society and specialises in late-Victorian and Edwardian urbanism.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781904710455
  • Publisher: Inter/Connexions
  • Publisher Imprint: Inter-Disciplinary Press
  • Height: 297 mm
  • ISBN-10: 190471045X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2008
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Width: 210 mm


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