Liberal Education in a Knowledge Society - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812695097 ISBN 13: 9780812695090

Verlag: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S., 2002

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Reseña del editor:

Liberal education - education which is not training for work - used to be governed by a canon, a recognized body of knowledge which was considered valuable for transmission from one generation to the next. This old idea of liberal education has come under fire because of the growth of scientific knowledge and the changing role of the universities in "knowledge building." This volume looks at the thinking of educational theorist Carl Bereiter, who has tackled the problem of the liberal education canon in a new way. Bereiter proposes that we view the main task of formal education as "enculturation into World 3". World 3, an idea adapted from Karl Popper (and contrasted with both World 1, the world of physical objects, and World 2, the world of subjective mental states), is much more than the body of accepted ideas. Becoming enculturated into World 3 means learning how to function effectively in creating, interpreting, and improving the objects in World 3 - ideas, theories, problems, and conjectures. The chapters examine both the theory of mind implied by Bereiter's work and the applications of his thought to social and pedagogical issues.

Biografía del autor:

Barry Smith is Professor of Philosophy and member of the Center for Cognitive Sciences at SUNY Buffalo. He is also the editor of The Monist, a philosophy journal.

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• Verlag: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0812695097
• ISBN 13: 9780812695090
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Smith Barry