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‘Sensing’ the Curriculum

The Role of Aesthetics in Higher Education

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Throughout the 20th century the critical capacity of the university migrates into three surrounding institutions – technocracies, commercial sites of innovation and civil society. Technocracies, 1 which apply expertise to the management of society, replace the university’s knowledge-management function. They establish and test norms while building critical consensus through their jurisdictions and hence become the sources of today’s reliable knowledge.

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Devroop, C. (2016). ‘Sensing’ the Curriculum. In: Samuel, M.A., Dhunpath, R., Amin, N. (eds) Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-896-9_3

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