Knowledge for What? Wales, Militarisation and the Endless Promotion of the Knowledge Economy

Autor/in	Tannock, Stuart
Titel	Knowledge for What? Wales, Militarisation and the Endless Promotion of the Knowledge Economy
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 7 (2009) 3, S.257-274 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Economic Development; Rhetoric; Privatization; Military Training; Working Class; War; Education; Learning; Free Enterprise System; Public Policy; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Rhetorik; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Militärausbildung; Arbeiterklasse; Krieg; Bildung; Erziehung; Lernen; Freie Wirtschaft; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	The "knowledge economy" has become the buzzword of development policy in the early twenty-first century. Nations and regions around the world are all told that they must transform themselves into knowledge economies to survive and prosper. This article uses the example of Wales and its recent embrace of a massive military privatisation project in the name of the knowledge economy to illustrate how political and business elites use knowledge economy discourse to build legitimacy for their own development agendas and interests. The ideological work that knowledge economy discourse performs is based on its claim that knowledge should be seen primarily as a factor of production, along with land, labour and capital; its promotion of the need for networking, teamwork and partnership; its insistence that social and economic advancement be based on talent, education and skill; and most of all, its presumption that knowledge, education and learning are inherently and unquestionably goods in and of themselves. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10