This provocative book's starting point is a deep and profound
concern about the commodification of knowledge within the
contemporary university. Acts of Knowing aims to provide readers
with a means of understanding the issues from the perspective of
Critical Pedagogy; an educational philosophy which believes that
'knowing' must be freed from the constraints of the financial and
managerialist logics which dominate the contemporary university.
Critical Pedagogy is important for three key reasons: it
conceptualises pedagogy as a process of engagement between the
teacher and taught; secondly that that engagement is based on an
underlying humanistic view about human worth and value; and thirdly
that the 'knowing' which can come out of this engagement needs to
be understood essentially as exchange between people, rather than a
financial exchange. Cowden and Singh argue that the conception of
education as simply a means for securing economic returns for the
individual and for the society's positioning in a global
marketplace, represents a fundamentally impoverished conception of
education, which impoverishes not just individuals, but society as
a whole.
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