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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 the 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.
| ISBN | 0304337056 | | Pages | ix/192p | | ISBN13 | 9780304337057
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | CASSELL & CO (UK/NY)-PUBLISHERS DIST CTR /CASSELL MANSELL PUBLISHING | | Weight (grammes) | 490 | | Imprint | CASSELL ACADEMIC | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Series editor | Barnett, Ronald | | Publication date | 15 Jul 1997 | | Series title | The Institute of Education | | Non-book description | 208 | | Height (mm) | 252 | | Library of Congress | LB | | Width (mm) | 175 |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | List of Contributors | | | | 1 | | Knowledge under Attack: Consumption, Diversity and the Need for Values by Anne Griffin | | 2 | | 2 | | The Crisis of Knowledge and the Massification of Higher Education by Peter Scott | | 14 | | 3 | | Is there a Crisis? Does it Matter? by Stephen McNair | | 27 | | 4 | | Realism, Postmodernism and Cultural Values by Kate Soper | | 39 | | 5 | | Higher Education after Ideology: Whose Crisis? What Knowledge? by John Haldane | | 53 | | 6 | | Visions of Embattled Science by Mary Midgley | | 68 | | 7 | | Whose Knowledge? Whose Postmodernism? by Anne Seller | | 85 | | 8 | | Seductive Texts: Competence, Power and Knowledge in Postmodernity by Robin Usher | | 99 | | 9 | | Negotiating Truth: Some Insights from Applied Social Anthropology by Sonia Greger | | 113 | | 10 | | The Arts, Postmodern Culture and the Politics of Aesthetic Education by Peter Abbs | | 128 | | 11 | | A New University Space: A Dialogue on Argument, Democracy and the University by George Myerson | | 139 | | 12 | | Truth, Identity and Community in the University by Nigel Blake | | 151 | | 13 | | A Knowledge Strategy for Universities by Ronald Barnett | | 166 | | | | Select Bibliography | | 181 | | | | Index of names | | 187 | | | | Index of subjects | | 190 |
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