The End of knowledge in higher education

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The work The End of knowledge in higher education represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The End of knowledge in higher education

Statement of responsibility

<edited by> Ronald Barnet and Anne Griffin

Contributor

• Griffin, Anne, 1941-
• Griffin, Anne, 1941-
• Barnett, Ronald, 1947-
• Barnett, Ronald, 1947-

Editor

• Griffin, Anne, 1941-
• Barnett, Ronald, 1947-
• Barnett, Ronald, 1947-
• Griffin, Anne, 1941-

Subject

• Education, Higher -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

This study questions whether it is possible to identify a justified, secure and coherent base for our knowledge of the world and of ourselves. Science no longer enjoys an unquestioned pre-eminence in providing objective knowledge, and the social improvement brought about through rational thought has been recently attacked by postmodernism. Higher education is therefore placed in a precarious position, based as it is on the acquisition of knowledge and understanding. This book explores the various dimensions of this crisis of confidence in science and higher education, showing how thinkers in the various disciplines are reacting to this challenge, and how they are re-evaluating the basis of their forms of enquiry

Member of

• University of London. Institute of Education, Monograph series

Cataloging source

EUE

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Institute of Education series