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Education and Culture: a Perspective from Higher Education
Author(s) -
Gaskell S. Martin
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1989.tb01517.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , higher education , windsor , sociology , perspective (graphical) , relation (database) , moral education , social science , political science , pedagogy , public administration , public relations , law , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , database , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
This article raises questions about the cultural values of higher education today. It states a range of concerns about students, institutions and some at least of the Government's policies. At every level from government downwards there is a tendency to fall back on means rather than objectives. Social attitudes and those held within education reflect uncertainties about the moral responsibilities of higher education. The classical cultural definition of higher education as an end in itself has encouraged an exclusive view, detached from the real world. The article discusses how cultural expectations can be defined in relation to higher education today and suggests some of the issues that need to be addressed. It is based on a paper originally presented to a Consultation on ‘Education and Culture’ at St George's House, Windsor in December 1988.