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The Nature of University Education Reconsidered (a response to Ronald Barnett's The Idea of Higher Education)
Author(s) -
AVIRAM AHARON
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1992.tb00280.x
Subject(s) - criticism , character (mathematics) , sociology , fragmentation (computing) , higher education , epistemology , philosophy of education , positive economics , political science , law , philosophy , economics , computer science , geometry , mathematics , operating system
The paper is a response to the present crisis of higher education as reflected in the fragmentation of the university, and its increasingly pevformative character. It is based on a criticism of Ronald Barnett's recent attempt to tackle this problem. While agreeing with Barnett's fundamentally radical approach to higher education, the paper criticises Barnetts view on three levels: the methodological, theoretical and practical. It ends with guidelines for an alternative radical approach which avoids the practical problems besetting Barnetts proposal.