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SUMMARY:Postmodernity\, Performativity and the Death of Knowledge: Assessi
 ng Research and Researchers in Contemporary Universities - Peter Roberts\,
  University of Canterbury\, New Zealand
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:One of the distinguishing features of postmodernity is an obse
 ssion with ‘performance’ in the educational sphere.  This is particula
 rly evident in universities\, where the logic of performativity has become
  a dominant feature of contemporary academic life.  This paper focuses on 
 one example of this logic at work: the development of performance-based re
 search funding schemes.  Drawing on the work of Jean-Françios Lyotard\, a
 nd paying particular but not exclusive attention to the New Zealand contex
 t\, I explore some of the ontological\, epistemological and ethical implic
 ations of such schemes.\n\nPeter Roberts is Professor of Education at the 
 University of Canterbury in New Zealand.  His primary areas of scholarship
  are philosophy of education and educational policy studies.  He has publi
 shed widely in international journals. He is the author or editor of ten b
 ooks\, the most recent of which include Paulo Freire in the 21st Century: 
 Education\, Dialogue\, and Transformation (2010)\, The Virtues of Openness
 : Education\, Science\, and Scholarship in the Digital Age\, with Michael 
 Peters (2011)\, and From West to East and Back Again: An Educational Readi
 ng of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work (2012).  Professor Roberts is Director 
 of the Educational Theory\, Policy and Practice Research Hub at the Univer
 sity of Canterbury\, and Vice-President of the Philosophy of Education Soc
 iety of Australasia.  In 2010 he was a Canterbury Fellow at the University
  of Oxford\, and in 2012 he has been an inaugural Rutherford Visiting Scho
 lar at Trinity College\, Cambridge.
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