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Public scholarship in the postmodern university
Author(s) -
Yapa Lakshman
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.226
Subject(s) - scholarship , postmodernism , pragmatism , sociology , epistemology , order (exchange) , social theory , social science , engineering ethics , pedagogy , political science , philosophy , law , engineering , finance , economics
This chapter argues that public scholarship can transcend the epistemological limitations of research universities by drawing on postmodern social theory and pragmatism in order to help solve social problems that too often expert knowledge itself has helped create.