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Liberal Education in a Knowledge Society
Barry Smith
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Hardcover. This volume looks at the thinking of educational theorist Carl Bereiter and how he tackled the problem of the liberal education canon. He proposed the way we view the main task of formal education as "enculturation into world 3". World 3 is an idea adapted from Karl Popper. Editor(s): Smith, Barry. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Illinois
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL, United States
ISBN
9780812695083
SKU
V9780812695083
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About Barry Smith
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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