The Theatre of Fast Knowledge: Performative Epistemologies in Higher EducationFootnote¹

1. An earlier version of this paper, entitled “Performative Epistemologies: The Theatre of Fast knowledge” was presented at The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Annual Conference, 2004, Oxford, U.K. See proceedings: http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid = 8821

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