社会冲突及教育创新.docVIP

社會衝突與教育創新 Social Conflict and Educational Innovation 授課教師：蘇哲安 Jon Solomon (T714) 授課時間、教室：週二 6-7節 Q205 授課語言： Open to students with a reading knowledge of either English or French, in addition to Chinese。課程進度表將視同學的語文能力與需求加以適當的調整。 課程宗旨 As was the factory, so now is the university. Where once the factory was a paradigmatic site of struggle between workers and capitalists, so now the university is a key space of conflict, where the ownership of knowledge, the reproduction of the labour force, and the creation of social and cultural stratifications are all at stake. This is to say the university is not just another institution subject to sovereign and governmental controls, but a crucial site in which wider social struggles are won and lost. To be sure, these changes occur as capitalism gives new importance to the production of knowledge, and in the advanced capitalist world, moves such production of knowledge to the centre of the economy. With this movement, the university also loses its monopoly in this same sphere of knowledge production. Perhaps it once made sense to speak of town and gown. But now the borders between the university and society blur. This merging of university and society takes diverse forms. It can be shaped by the pressure to market degrees. Or it can be forced by measures that link the provision of funding to ‘technological transfer’ or collaboration with ‘partners’ from government and/or commercial enterprises. Similarly, the growing precariousness of academic work means that many labour both in and out of the university, not to mention the labour conditions for non-academic workers. And the opening of many universities to previously excluded cohorts of students, whether on the basis of social class or national jurisdiction, means that their internal composition has also changed. These transformations both shift the possibilities for political expression in the university and initiate new kinds of struggle. In some instances, a politicised student