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Tiêu đề
The reaction against conventional knowledge in higher education
Tác giả
Anderson G.L.
Năm xuất bản
2014
Source title
On the Horizon
Số trích dẫn
1
DOI
10.1108/OTH-09-2013-0032
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Purpose: Liberal education should consist of a healthy dynamic of mastering and transcending received traditions. This paper aims to discuss this point. Design/methodology/approach: This article discusses the inherent tension between the concepts of "liberal" and "education," where "education" involves imparting conventional knowledge and "liberal" involves freeing the mind from it. Findings: With the rise of the social sciences and the maturation of the baby-boomers, higher education in the twentieth century gained a general bias against traditional knowledge. This bias is reflected in higher education becoming more jobs oriented, more ideological, and relativistic in values. Practical implications: Higher education should consist of greater integration of historical aspects of education pushed aside in the twentieth-century while continuing its transformation through new scientific research, making twenty-first century education more genuinely liberal. Originality/value: The required transformation will be difficult for many baby-boomers now in positions of authority in higher education who rejected conventional knowledge in the 1960s. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Từ khóa
Convention; Education; Faith; Knowledge; Liberal; Science
Tài liệu tham khảo
Feyerabend P., Against Method, (1978); Hayek F., The presumption of reason; Kuhn T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, (1970); Troeltsch E., The Absoluteness of Christianity and the History of Religions, (1971); Wilber K., A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality, (2001)
Nơi xuất bản
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Hình thức xuất bản
Article
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus