The Entrepreneurial University
The Entrepreneurial University
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创业大学
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10.1057/9781137275875.0019
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2014
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Rose A
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This chapter seeks to offer a critical reflection on the politics of engaging stakeholders in research. Specifically, we shed light on the difficulties and tensions encountered in delivering a seminar series on the ‘inter-relationships of education and culture’that had at its heart a desire to facilitate a dialogue between academics and policy makers and practitioners. This series of seminars,‘New Perspectives on Education and Culture’(http://educationandculture. wordpress. com/), ran from January 2011 to January 2013 and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, 2012). The seminar series sought to explore the ways in which culture and learning co-produce each-other. As an academic field, Education is often positioned in rather limited terms, as the following typical outline demonstrates:‘Education has been called a field of practice, and the various contexts and subjects of education-pedagogy, learning, systems, institutional contexts, practitioners and students–constitute the subjects of education research’(Francis, 2011: 6). In contrast, we wanted to explore how learning is culturally constructed as an everyday experience, from early years to later life and in formal and informal spaces, including popular culture, family cultures, teaching cultures and local cultures. We wanted to highlight Education as a field of theory where multiple perspectives are essential to answer our three key questions: How does learning shape culture? How does culture shape learning? How do gender,‘race’and class shape inter-relationships of education and culture? To this end, speakers and participants were drawn from a vast array of different disciplinary locations 1 and, importantly, from within and outside academia. Our ideal vision of this dialogue between academic and non-academic stakeholders in education and culture was that it would be reciprocal, providing opportunities to expand our own knowledge but also affording opportunities to challenge the paradigms by which social