Making Hegemony Problematic for the Professoriate: Power, Knowledge and the Concurrent Center in America's Higher Learning.

Slaughter, Sheila; Silva, Edward T.

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ERIC Number: EJ287512

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Publication Date: 1983

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Making Hegemony Problematic for the Professoriate: Power, Knowledge and the Concurrent Center in America's Higher Learning.

Slaughter, Sheila; Silva, Edward T.

Educational Theory, v33 n2 p79-90 Spr 1983

The relationship between power and knowledge is discussed, as it concerns the professoriate in higher education. Power and knowledge, it is argued, can vary independently. Although economic power influences faculty, they still possess considerable autonomy to shape education and to develop humanistic capacities of students. (PP)

Descriptors: Capitalism, College Faculty, Economic Factors, Educational Philosophy, Educational Sociology, Higher Education, Power Structure, Professional Autonomy, Social Structure, Socioeconomic Influences, Teacher Role

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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