Creativity, Openness and the Global Knowledge Economy

Postmodern Educational Capitalism, Global Information Systems and New Media Networks

“…Peters, 1996Peters, , 2001 as well as to adopt post-structuralist theory as a matrix for entertaining critical histories of post-industrial knowledge economies and the influence they exert on education systems (Peters & Besley, 2006;Peters et al, 2009;Marginson et al 2010;Murphy et al, 2010;Araya & Peters, 2010;Peters, 2010;Peters & Bulut, 2011). Significantly, the emerging political economy of education and knowledge under the development of global information and learning systems points to the dominance of a global informational (cybernetic) capitalism that threatens to engulf education by (1) providing the infrastructure and code for global education systems and (2) establishing processes that lead to the monopolization and privatization of both education and knowledge.…”

Strength-based scholarship and good education: The scholarship circle

“…Barnett (2011), however, describes how over time the 'research university' has accrued tremendous privileges, moving 'from scholarship and learning to knowledge and research' (Barnett, 2011, p. 442). Research-intensive universities have become particularly powerful in the era of the 'knowledge economy' (Peters, Marginson, & Murphy, 2009). Barnett notes that knowledge has fragmented into disciplines rather than 'forming a unity' , with each discipline having 'its own properties and perspectives' (Barnett, 2011, p. 442).…”

Metaphors of Creativity and Workplace Learning

“…In cutting across the intellectual landscape of philosophy and the social sciences I here point to some conventional and taken-forgranted assumptions on productive workplace learning within the current creative economy (e.g. Araya & Peters, 2010;Peters, Marginson, & Murphy, 2009). A distinct contribution of this article is thus that it helps to disclose unrecognized implication of the three metaphors, and hence of various approaches to research on workplace learning.…”