John Higgins on Academic Freedom. (April 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- John Higgins on Academic Freedom. (April 2016)
- Main Title:
- John Higgins on Academic Freedom
- Authors:
- Docherty, Thomas
- Abstract:
- This review article considers the work of John Higgins on academic freedom. It reveals that Higgins offers an account that eschews any fundamental relation between academic freedom and the market. Rather, he offers a more nuanced view that takes academic freedom out of the academy and into a wider political and social domain, while simultaneously avoiding the trap of offering a transcendent or metaphysical 'idea' of academic freedom. This depends upon what Higgins calls 'critical literacy', which requires that we develop an understanding of specific issues textually, theoretically, and historically. In this way, Higgins attends to historically specific occasions when social freedom is under threat, and demonstrates how our freedoms within the academy can intervene to redeem that social freedom and extend it. The piece argues that academic freedom is more than merely academic, but social and political.
- Is Part Of:
- Arts and humanities in higher education. Volume 15:Number 2(2016)
- Journal:
- Arts and humanities in higher education
- Issue:
- Volume 15:Number 2(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 15, Issue 2 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0015-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 193
- Page End:
- 196
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04
- Subjects:
- Academic freedom -- critical literacy -- cultural policy -- John Higgins -- university governance
Arts -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals
Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals
700.711 - Journal URLs:
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1474022215613602 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1474-0222
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- Legaldeposit
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